Walrus Speedster

These came up on eBay. Can't start anything but some drawings just yet...

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Result. Love a good Walrus build.

Tubes and drawings are as good a start as any.
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Uh oh spaggettio...

I had an idea...

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753 with carbon rear end would be unique

I just hope there isn't a really good reason for that!

You best do some research.

No reason at all, especially as the steel tubes you'll be bonding into won't be 753 so it's mostly irrelevant. Great project.

Subbed. Looking forward to seeing what becomes of this!!

Me too.

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Lugged head-tube and seat-tube/top-tube, Cycle Design Fillet Pro for low temp. fillets for BB and seat stay wishbone. Going for an early 90's 8 or 9 speed low-pro TT (but with old man saddle-bar drop) kind of thing.

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Shouldn't a lo-pro be fixed. Looks like an interesting build.

Consider reversing the colours so it's red at the head tube.
Bikes look lots better and faster with the dark in the front.

There was a huge tradition of lo-pro TT bikes from the 80's and early 90's too - probably before and since as well, but that seems to be the boom years, after that it became all about the aero-bars, and keeping a flat top-tube while road bikes started sloping the other way. Probably some UCI regulation changes. (And I have two fixed gears already).

Finally got to do something...

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Huzzah!
So happy to see a Walrus thread pop up again!

Starting to get a bit excited now

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Loving the look of this!

Some brazing, not the most beautiful, but I think it will be okay. I leave such long gaps between frames, that I have to learn all over again, every time. The Fillet-Pro low temp. silver based braze for fillets is pretty good, if a little weird at first. Took a few goes to get proper feeling for it. I cheated on the extra bit of tube for the triple-triangle. The mitering was awful, the tear shape is a pain to work with. It was a little (a lot) gappy, so I use the epoxy resin I'll be using to bond the carbon in with, with a little extra filler, to fix it. It's largely cosmetic, so I figure I'll get away with this:

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Amazing work

Wow

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Qual. What epoxy are you using?