If you are seeing it for the first time- this is a mostly carbon fiber frameset created in my basement. The stays/BB are from a broken Surly Pugsley, the headtube is from an El Mariachi, the fork lowers/dropouts are White Bros., the steerer tube is Look HSC5, and the carbon tubes in the main triangle are from a Colnago C40.
Build kit is relatively straight forward otherwise- Chose friction shifting 10 speed due to personal preference.
Paint was Kim with the hand lettering/bats. None of these images show the retro-reflective clear... this thing lights up very brightly under flash or headlights. More pictures to come showing that.
Here is is-
wicked!
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ReplyDeleteThat bike is awesome, love the paint job too, Nice work
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ReplyDeleteAnd already having to consider carefully choosing between cross nats and triple D... Arrowhead is off the table completely unless I can get a lot of free gear between now and then.
Very nice job on this project! One question I have: final weight!? I have in mind building a carbon fatbike next year believing that I could have a final product under 25 pounds? (my goal is to use the lefty fork).
ReplyDeleteIt could easily be light- however, with my construction method and the steel that there is on this frame it isn't particularly light. My total weight is 31 lbs or about 29 with marge lite wheels/husker du tires. This was more of a test of the concept than a weight thing. I am considering another bike in the future... lighter and with drop bars.
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