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A while ago I decided to build a tall bike, this venture was partially fuelled by watching the documentary Be Inclusive Kill Exclusivity and also wanting to ride around central London shouting about how the apocalypse is coming or something. And being high up is fun.
After sourcing the first frame:
Which was ridden by a friend when he was hit by a car and all of the components bar the frame were royally fucked, I searched for another and found this lovely Raleigh with a broken dropout for free on the classifieds forum (thanks mrgumby!):
So with 2 frames (for free!) I tried to go about getting some tubing. Turns out that is fucking hard. Luckily my friend had a tall bike fork already, unfortunately it's 700c and I plan to have a 26" front wheel in the hope of preventing wheelies, so we're going to chop the steerer off of the old tall cork and weld it onto my 26" fork.
(old tall fork pictured)
I finally started work on it yesterday, just basic stuff, chopping the stays off of the top frame, as thus:
In my infinite incompetence I managed to gouge the seat tube slightly with the angle grinder, but it will be fine. Must be more careful.
And then looking at how it all lines up with a broom. Brooms are good tools.
Hopefully doing the welding this Sunday, then putting the bike together shortly after.
All of the parts were acquired due to being cheap or free and as a result of that I have some fun stuff. Highlights include Brompton cranks and a f.u.n.n mountain bike stem.
Will update as stuff is done!