Hand build fillet brazed steel frame, build by my own fair hands.
After cutting and filling tubes, building up brazed fillets and a whole pile of finishing this is the result.
I finally bolted it all together in the camping field at Bristol Bikefest on the Friday night – so I guess shake down was my first lap.
Pretty darn happy with the way it rides, just need to fix on the head badge which is sat on my desk.
Thanks to Ron and Gary at UBI for their teachings and guidance, Martin for his painting skills and Andy and James at Rock and Road for their wheel building skills and relieving me of the cash for the rest of the parts.
I guess it time to stick up some pictures of my new bike build.
Hand build fillet brazed steel frame, build by my own fair hands.
After cutting and filling tubes, building up brazed fillets and a whole pile of finishing this is the result.
I finally bolted it all together in the camping field at Bristol Bikefest on the Friday night – so I guess shake down was my first lap.
Pretty darn happy with the way it rides, just need to fix on the head badge which is sat on my desk.
Thanks to Ron and Gary at UBI for their teachings and guidance, Martin for his painting skills and Andy and James at Rock and Road for their wheel building skills and relieving me of the cash for the rest of the parts.
Can you give a bit of background to this please? It looks amazing, so amazing I must have missed something. I mean you've built a frame to the kind of level most people would be happy to pay for. So either it's not that hard, it's not your first build or you're a **** genius (I kind of hope it's the last one!)
Seriously, looking at the pictures on Flickr it looks fantastic.
And it's fillet brazed; you don't see that so much these days. Is there a reason for that? As I understood it, fillet brazing is done at a lower temperature, is that right?
Fillet brazed as it's a process I can continue in the garage/shed, without going to the expense buying a TIG welding machine.
TIG also takes alot of practice before you stop blowing holes enough to make a decent frame.
I'm an engineer so it's one of those things I've wanted to do for ages.
Can't remember the exact numbers, there on the drawing sat at work. 71deg Head, 74deg Seat, 23.25in Toptube.
Nothing amazingly different, basically some tweaks on my old Unit so it fits me better.
My own design EBB, I think they look cleaner. Easy to adjust and direct fit bearings.