Ken Charlson Fixie Project

Yea I get that !!? Must get boring all the mutual masterbation lol

Fire away if I'm honest I like it too

Wether you do or not !!!!

Is that a come on?

ooh baby lol

It's a public forum, everybody has right on stating his opinion. Not every opinion needs to be considered though. I keep my frames intact, but don't feel a need to bust his ass for chopping a bit. It's all fun and games. After this thread I feel like buying a classic pista and chop it to pieces just to be an attention whore for a minute :)

buy some braze ons and turn it into a road bike

Didn't realise it was so simple/cheap to replace dropouts and track ends.

I think people have made their point and let their opinions be heard, no need to keep beating a dead horse. Whichever side of the preservation argument you lie on, you need to chill.

u mad bro? this is lfgss my friend

It's still gonna be a massive heap of shit compared to if it remained as was.
Oh, and why Tig the dropouts instead of brazing them?

Cost is a major factor
Tig cost £20 got quoted £140 for brazing the heap of shit ha ha

But that's with me doing all the fit before and finish after welding
What difference would brazing have made to the frame ??

rear clearance is fine .!!!!! plenty of measuring and not a lot of chopping ensured this.. il take pic and post tomorrow hopefully..

Have it not occur to you that the front clearance will be big as a gaping anus?

That'll look the biscuit, tight rear and gaping front.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to edscoble again.

why would you think i would have different clearance front and rear ??

Because you didn't change the drop out on the front.

Thereforth even with the same tyres size, a 28c will be quite close to the seat stay bridge whether the front will have enough gap to put your thumb inbetween the tyres and the fork crown.

It also mean you'll need two different brakes, a long reach front, and a short reach rear.

But that's with me doing all the fit before and finish after welding
What difference would brazing have made to the frame ??

This is AFAIK;

Brazing is stronger, especially on thin walled steel frame that have already been heat affected, unless you have gas-piped, plain gauge, heavy tubing, welding is generally not recommended.

Would be helpful if other whom know a bit more into this comment on it.

When he was slamming the suspension on his saxo with sand bags, and shaving off the door handles with an axe, while putting that special bubbly window tint Sellotape on the glass, he never had to worry about such details.

This will sit in the 'mongoloid' section of your 'stable'.

Lovely sounding saxo !!!!!

How do they weld alloy frames ??

fit some cunt stickers

to your face?

I would think that TIG welding is substantially stronger than brazing given that the two objects are melted together along with the welding rod.

Have it not occur to you that the front clearance will be big as a gaping anus?

That'll look the biscuit, tight rear and gaping front.

Painting it pink? Poor man's dosnoventsa?

The day anyone pays attention to something Scoble says about bike aesthetics... What he did to that Brooklyn was probably a worse idea than what's gone on here.

I quite like this one - it might end up looking a bit funny, but it'll probably look alright at first glance. A bunch of work's gone into it which makes it interesting and to be honest I can't really find myself frothing at the mouth at someone cutting up their own frame.

Il just cut rear brake mount out so there is nothing to match up to
Can use it on my yacht as a posh pen holder

The day anyone pays attention to something Scoble says about bike aesthetics... What he did to that Brooklyn was probably a worse idea than what's gone on here.

My only mistake was not getting water bottle mount brazed on, otherwise still the same great bike.

I think this is a great project.. As i see it this bike get's a new life and the cutting/chopping just add's to the bike's history..

Should there be to much clearance in the fork department it's easy enough to just cut out the front drops off/shorten the fork legs/weld them back on to make it match with the rear..

I would think that TIG welding is substantially stronger than brazing given that the two objects are melted together along with the welding rod.

Oui, mais, tubing on a 50 years old bike may not be suitable for the high temperatures of TIG welding, which is why I said *Oulala *when I saw the picture of the welding action...

Unless the frame was made of thick gas pipe, in which case it should be fine, but it's more likely it was a good tube set used here...

Didn't Reynolds bring specidic tubbing for TIG welding? And this was not 50 years ago, more 20 years ago...,

I don't mean that in the sense it's a blasphemy to TIG weld tubes that were meant to be brazed, but more with regards to safety. Old frames are more fragile. Having had one that snapped under me while riding (luckely without bad consequences), I am worried about these things...

Ribblekid, keep an close eye on your frame from time to time, check if there is no hairline cracks on the paint, whatever you will use ultimately, listen for unusual creakings noises...

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did you ride it with that toe strap fix? how far?