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Yup, fat too! 31.6x410 Thomson in the post

A little detail just for me

Only got to the workshop for a few hours this evening but made some progress (had to tack up a customers frame first to clear the jig).

Seatstays done, angles refer to s/stay relative to dropout and s/stay ST

Looking like a bicycle frame!

Stoked on the TT, ST, SS junction, think it’s gonna look sweet filletted up.
All mitres freestyle hand cut (except for CSs- BB and dropout slots). Partly due to necessity - tubing profiles and tooling, partly because it’s a labor of love, a chance to do things differently and challenge myself.

Liking that wishbone/yoke assembly. Not seen it done that way before but looks neat. How was it to fit up?

In the range 120-140. It will initially be 130. I ride a reasonably aggressive position on the road and only do mass start races on the track, maybe a few crits on it too. I designed the geometry so that I could replicate my road position but still have a lot of room to move forward on the bike.

I’ll take the selection box to the track and experiment then, when I’m happy might make a steel bar stem combo

Yeah it’s been steep but satisfying and quite an adventure

Pleasure, I'm thinking to work on it on the weekend. Seatstay cutting, final fit up, tacking and brazing on Saturday, filing on Sunday and squeeze in the finishing work next week

Been doing it on a bunch of bikes recently, though not quite so open at the back. It's quite a cool design/construction feature I think and not too difficult to do

Found time yesterday morning to process the chainstays

Party time

Front triangle all fit up, will do a final refinement of mitres before clean-up and tacking

Downtube

Toptube pre and post forming

Headtube and BB

Tubes

Process began early on a Saturday morning, coffee, computer, sunrise, geometry

Identifying clearance parameters. I'll be running Omniums on this, with the well documented clearance issues they have (and my own locked out of reach in the velodrome) I spent a while double, tripple checking that I was working from accurate specs.

Then drawing everything out actual size along with some doodles on design and filleting

Finalised geometry and buildmaster drawings

I just wanted to check in with the boss before posting the name

All will be clear when the logos go on

Sure, a pretty traditional route into a non-traditional career - I went to the Yamaguchi Framebuilding School in 2015, then interned for a year in London, went to college to learn to weld and gain more machine shop skills, then got the job at Shand and moved to Scotland. Stayed there near two years and moved to Berlin in summer

Sorry for the delay gang, the build has been progressing along but I’ve struggled to find time to get on a computer.

Tempelhof and Gleisdreieck

Interesting question and something I’ve actually pondered quite a lot. In the past I consciously tried to keep the mojo, to make sure the riding and training was always fun.

These days I just do what I’m in the mood for and if I’m drifting away from cycling - that’s ok, I always tend to find my way back. I also tend to stop serious cycling (training and racing) mid summer and just enjoy being fit and cycling.

With framebuilding - it’s a craft and a job. It’s making things well and improving skills that makes me happy, it just happens that the things I make are bikes. Though making bikes for myself/friends/family definitely helps strengthen the connection and get me excited.

Also my social life has nothing to do with cycling. My girlfriend (despite my best efforts - that pink Shand ^^^ is one I made for her) isn’t a cyclist and neither are most of my friends so I don’t really talk about bikes or cycling. That’s why it’s cool to come on here and share projects 🙂

No, it’s mostly sanded off or buried but there’s a few places where the top layers have been scratched and a bit of the UV paint can be seen, like @Jonny69 said

Haha I know, looked ok for a day in summer, don’t worry it’ll be going back to black shortly!

Cheers!

Just seen I never posted a pic of the complete bike

And my favorite detail - an official endorsement from the painter

In use