I did this: signed up for a framebuilding class, measured my youngest son who needed a good road bike, and built a virtual clone of my Rambouillet. The only change I made was to increase the fender clearance slightly under the headtube and the seat stay bridge since my Ram frankly runs at the minimum usable clearance with 28mm tires. The lugged bike turned out to be spectacular: it handles, if you can believe this, slightly better than the Ram (although I suspect that my handling test was biased due to less weight in the front bag). No matter; he loves the bike. I spent about twelve Sundays building this and loved every minute of it. If you can spare the time and cash, do it.
Steve Ames, IA On Jul 27, 1:25 pm, William <tapebu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Grant is apparently going to teach us how to draw a bike frame in his > little step by step way. I'm going to follow along. I want a custom > frame that somewhat resembles a 58cm 650B A. Homer Hilsen. The > critical differences will be that I want it 130mm spaced and want it > to be a lighter frameset. I don't know if I'll ever get this frameset > made, or whether it will be a Rivendell or an Ebisu or a Davidson or > something else. But I'm looking forward to drawing it. I've done a > fair amount of drafting table work in Engineering school, but never > went ahead and drew a bike. Looking forward to it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
