Demon Frameworks 953 fast touring bike

Lovely. Looking forward to the final product.

That is tasty! My vote is for no paint. It looks teh sex as is. Show off that stainless goodness.

Stunning work! Can't wait to see it finished.

This bike is gonna be awesome!!!

Loving your IF btw. I agree that the green/white/yellow looks amazing.

This stunning.... Can't wait to see it!

apparently i need another bike

:-)

Lovely. Looking forward to the final product.

Thanks for all the nice comments. I too am really looking forward to seeing the final product and also the complete bike. Looking forward to many a mile on it too :-)

This is really great work. Those dropouts are incredible, really elegantly done.

I think what I like most is the fact that you can really SEE the effort that Tom has put into this frameset. Having seen some of his other frames it's clear he puts the same into all of his projects, but I like the fact that you can almost see every stroke he's made. I'm sure if you wanted him to he'd polish out every tiny mark, but I wanted a finish that showed the love and attention that has been put into the build and I think the "brushed" finish Tom has achieved really shows that. The pic below of the chain stay bridge and lower guard mount shows that best. I guess that's why I also like the idea of the translucent paint. The stays will be "naked" regardless, but it would be nice for all of the lovely detail of the frame to be visible even when painted.

This totally........ 'unf!'

Lush.

Mamma mia...

And the money shot:

Being collected tomorrow to go to the painters. They paint it early next week so I've got the weekend to contemplate final paint options...

amazing!

Wowee, I hope they do a really good paintjob to show off the workmanship of the lugs, like this bike;

He uses the same paint shop as Feather and rates them as the best around, so I'm hopeful it will do it justice.

I'd probably go to the same paint shop for my Oak

Awesome! I notice two eyelets on the fork but just the one on the rear - do you have a specific front rack in mind and any reason why you went for that over a rear rack?

wow! that is stunning

Good question. The fork dropouts had 2 eyelets, but if you look at the finished one he's removed the redundant one i.e. I'm not going to have a front rack.

There's only 1 eyelet on the rear as I'll be using this bike mainly for "normal" duties so it will permanently have the guards mounted but the rack will only be for the very rare occasions when I get to go on touring holidays. A young family means that these will be infrequent and generally they'll be short trips with light loads so felt that it was ok to mount the guards and rack to the same eyelet rather than have an eyelet redundant most of the time. Or to put it another way, I liked these dropouts and I don't think they we're available with double eyelets :-)

Looks nice, looking foward to see it finished!

Ah I see now. I'm sure the rear eyelet will take a lightly loaded rack there.

FWIW, and I know it's too late now, I'd like to see a nice two-colour paint job like in the OP. Green and white's a good look.

I still don't quite understand why you didn't go for two eyelets in the back, my custom bike won't have a rear rack, but it will have two eyelets as I don't want to faff about with the rear mudguard.

Think you'll ask him to do you a custom rear rack for that bike in the near future?

Ah I see now. I'm sure the rear eyelet will take a lightly loaded rack there.

It can take a normal amount of weight, it's more a question of whether the tubing diameter can prevent the rear from being too flexy fully laden.

I think he really liked those dropouts but they didn't come in a 2-eyelet version ed

Ed's just trolling the thread, I should just block his access to Current Projects.

Ah I see now. I'm sure the rear eyelet will take a lightly loaded rack there.

FWIW, and I know it's too late now, I'd like to see a nice two-colour paint job like in the OP. Green and white's a good look.

The plan is still to stick to the original green/white scheme only with an translucent colour on the green. I've got a couple of days to think about it though as they won't start work until next week. I've had a doubt that the translucent green and the plain white might be overkill and make it too fussy. Tom is going to provide me with images of a couple of other options, but I've had 18 months to consider different options so I'm pretty set on the one I've put up in a previous post. The stays will be lacquered so there will be plenty of the workmanship "on show" so may yet stick with the non translucent plan. Hmmm...

I still don't quite understand why you didn't go for two eyelets in the back, my custom bike won't have a rear rack, but it will have two eyelets as I don't want to faff about with the rear mudguard.

Think you'll ask him to do you a custom rear rack for that bike in the near future?

It can take a normal amount of weight, it's more a question of whether the tubing diameter can prevent the rear from being too flexy fully laden.

Tom mocked up a guard and a rack and said it worked fine and was easy to fit both to the same eyelet. He tried this in case it was awkward or difficult as he would have offered me the option of an additional braze on at the base of the seat stays if was problematic. Like I said, 99% of the time it will be used without the rack, so I'm happy with the single eyelet.

Tom knew it would be ridden (light) loaded on occasion so has selected the stays accordingly.

I have a rack already, but it's a bit basic and even though it won't be on often, I think I'm going to struggle to fit it to the bike as it's not "special" enough. I've had half an eye on Tubus racks, but was going to wait until the bike was built before I really considered what to do. A custom built "Demon" one? Now there's an idea I've never had, probably because I don't have the budget for that!

Thanks for your interest, trolling or otherwise :-)

Are you likely to frequent Wests or Souths? We ought to have our Demon's in the same place at least once ...

And very tasty it's looking too!

Are you likely to frequent Wests or Souths? We ought to have our Demon's in the same place at least once ...

And very tasty it's looking too!

Living in Maidstone, I'm vaguely aware of Wests, Souths etc, but hadn't considered it before. That said I like the idea so sounds like a plan. Once I've got it built I may just do that.

Excellent! I should be riding again a little by the time you have her built up. Dop me a pm when you're about.

Will do. Thanks.

Tom mocked up a guard and a rack and said it worked fine and was easy to fit both to the same eyelet. He tried this in case it was awkward or difficult as he would have offered me the option of an additional braze on at the base of the seat stays if was problematic. Like I said, 99% of the time it will be used without the rack, so I'm happy with the single eyelet.

Tom knew it would be ridden (light) loaded on occasion so has selected the stays accordingly.

Fair enough, I'll too be riding 99% without rear rack so can understand your reasoning.

I've had half an eye on Tubus racks, but was going to wait until the bike was built before I really considered what to do. A custom built "Demon" one? Now there's an idea I've never had, probably because I don't have the budget for that!

I highly recommended the thus rack, their steel fly is the lightest and strongest rack for the money (bar the titanium version) and fit your criteria.

I wanted to get a custom stem and rack from my builder but I couldn't afford the whole thing, so the best thing I can think of is simply get the bike build with OTP stem and rack till I can afford to have him make some for me.

I think it worth thinking about since time is on our side and having a custom rack is definitely a great option.

I highly recommended the thus rack, their steel fly is the lightest and strongest rack for the money (bar the titanium version) and fit your criteria.

I wanted to get a custom stem and rack from my builder but I couldn't afford the whole thing, so the best thing I can think of is simply get the bike build with OTP stem and rack till I can afford to have him make some for me.

I think it worth thinking about since time is on our side and having a custom rack is definitely a great option.

Great comments and advice. Thanks. Will look into the rack, and also like the idea of a custom stem/rack once I've got some miles and therefore have a clearer idea of exactly what I want (and had chance to save up the pennies: got some big bills on the immediate horizon).