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It's finished and everything works! (except the Brooks and an inline post).
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Some photos. Like I said, the dropouts are the same kind of dinosaur-head ones, that FFF has, but they don't look too bad with the massive tires.
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Sweet.
Heres hoping everything fits past everything. I'm still not convinced mine will turn to the left.
Got it today, dropouts are pretty ugly (not the new ones, something else). Driveside looks pretty good, but the non-drive side is massive due to the disc mount.
Other than the dropouts, everything looks really good. The welds are nice and smooth and the offset rear wheel fits perfect. There's probably room for 100mm rims and 4.8" tires. BFL's on 80mm rims leave quite a lot of room.
The paint could be better (a little rough in a few places), but more than good enough for me.Seatpost and clamp fit fine (the seat tube was reamed after paint it seems).
Holzfeller cranks seem to fit with about 4-5mm of clearance on both sides (I'll have to ream and face the bb threads before installing, but looks good). The only thing that's really close is the chainring. I have a 32t on the outer position, and it looks like there'll be about 2-3mm of clearance.
So far I'm very pleased with the result. I'll post photos tomorrow when theres some light, it's too dark now.
It's interesting to see if they will do another fatbike so cheap with all the trouble they had.
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Hahaa, mine is finally on it's way. It may even get here today!
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Well, I've gotten photos of the frame tacked a few weeks ago and last week he said quite clearly that the frame is done and going into painting, so I'm going to wait at least until next week. If it doesn't show up, I can at least call him out on being a liar and demand my money back, or some compensation for the huge delay.
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I'm in a very similar boat, although not with Mielec. Except I knew this would be a long build, and was informed of this. I was expecting/hoping for 12 months. Most of the delays after that have been as much my own, as the builders. Fatbikes just arent standard. I'm not sure if this is the case with Mielec. But IMHO its understandable that a small builder will need to keep easier builds going out the door. I personally did'nt pay for all the extra man hours my frame has demanded. So I'm not going to complain about them.
Hope this works out for you.
I understand that fatbikes are hard and they have had trouble building it, and the long lead time (which isn't really that long for a custom frame) is understandable. What I don't understand is lying about the progress. At one point he said that It'll be ready in a week, and then 3 weeks later said that they haven't even started because they've had problems with their plotter and haven't got the drawings out.
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Rincewind, you can actually use a clear powdercoat over a regular powdercoat, you just have to put the clear on when the frame is still hot from the oven. I've even done it with different colors with success.
About the times, Robert initially said the frame would be ready in early January. Since then, he's said that "it will be ready at the end of this week" about 5 times. Quite frankly I don't trust a word out of his mouth (keyboard) when it comes to time. mine is now almost 3 months late. What sucks is that it's a fatbike frame and we won't have any snow soon.
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Did you specify that or are all the new frames built with non-ugly ends?
Nah, I ordered mine ages ago (it's over 2 months late so far) and just asked for track dropouts. I was looking at the build photos he sent me and the drops look like those.
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Fuck yeah, looks like I'm getting those on mine.
This is old, but here's my budget Mielec build. Still going strong and is fun as hell. Shame we didn't have much snow this winter.