Hulsroy's Hustle

Thanks guys! Excited to see where the Enigma lands. Can't wait to have a fast road bike again. Frame is remarkably light.

In the meantime I have a show to finish for. @Tijmen and I are aiming at bringing his ATB and my daughter's new bike to Kolektif March 24-26. Stay tuned to see if we make it.

While waiting for some tubes to finish Tijmens bike I got started on my daughter's.

Dropouts first

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Pretty time consuming solution this. But the dropouts I've made are mega light and they will look banging.

Tomorrow I'll mitre the tubes and hopefully tack everything up.
Should be a quick build.

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That jig fixture? is so cute.

Hunter/Curtis inspired dropouts - Super nice

The stay mitre thingy? It's a bit of a dog's dinner tbh but it does the job

Every day I wake up aspiring to be like Hunter

Sensah RX 3 speed bought for the mini mtb. I have zero expectations

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Oh please make it to kolektif, will be a good motivator to go!

I'll chip in, would be nice to meet some familiar forum names IRL.
We ride from Hermannplatz?;)

We definitely are. Question is with how many bikes and in what state

Happy to meet up with people. If it's anything like Bespoked it will be a lot of talking and not enough cycling tho

So, LFGSS then

Sweet, I’d be interested to join as well.

Haha, LFGSS Berlin Chapter. Does anybody have the LFGSS CC kit?
Will make a thread this weekend to garner interest. Looking fwd to again explain to my girlfriend I will meet some guys from the internet.
Ive met @Jay75 once or twice too, he has/had a café in Prenzlberg.

And @stelfox,
Don't forget the beers. That's why I have a bottle cage on my city bikes anyway.

Looking fwd to again explain to my girlfriend I will meet some guys from the internet.

It will always just sound weird 🤷

and me - you gave a madras on your floor during the #fixed42 days B)

Hermannplatz is perfect!

Progress on the 16" MTB

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Decided to use this 25mm USE post.
Meant I needed to do a sleeve from an old steerer.

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I have amended the design slightly based on the outcome of the forks. I ended with 257mm AC and 30mm offset. With a 65° head angle on 16x2.25" tyres that gives me 66mm trail. I think that will be spot on for the intended use.
Seat tube I am doing at 75° so the whole bike is gonna have that progressive hardtail look.

I was gonna TIG this frame to save time but the tubes are probably Reynolds 531 (I don't actually know as I didn't buy them) for the main triangle. They are nice and light and definitely butted. I have chopped them loads of places they aren't meant to be chopped so I am working around that by brazing them gently. That's also one of the reasons I opted for a sleeve for the seat tube. It was fairly thin at the end.
It will be fine as the rider is a feather weight but I wanna make sure my son aka chunky boy is also able to shread it when he turns three. He is gifted with my overwhelming physique so that's nice...

The 25mm seat post I had from the last bike but it didn't fit that frame. And I am actually thinking that the thinner diameter will suit the build, be more gentle for the kids backs and probably look better. Bars are gonna be 25.4mm so it will look balanced i imagine.

Chainstays are Zona s bend seatstays (cut too short back in 2014) with a little 44bikes style crimping. They look the part I think. Seatstays are gonna be tapered straight Columbus something I had laying around. I might bend these a bit. I am not sure. I'll make it up as I go along. I might ovalise the top tube but instead of scallops/fish mouth i might do a CAAD 10 style transition since I am brazing everything anyways.

Yes indeed! Don't recall you sleeping over though, but recall the beginning of the beers and strolling around with your young and crazy danish compatriots.
You're not Berlin based though, that was a requirement..;)

Last spamming of this thread for the foreseeable to not distract from the ironmongering bizniz.

Join, fellow Berliner and whomever:
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/383783/

I think the scaling of the post and bars will be missed by most because it will look so right. Inspired.

Thanks. I think so too. But that's alright 😊