Using up some of the bicycle parts that were lying around in the basement
I made another pass at the seattube this morning, and after only about 3 hours of reaming away I finally got about 7 inches of the seat tube reamed out to 27.2mm. And then I cut down an old scrap seatpost (the original seatpost on the Trek, which had the seat clamp nut strip and which now has a regular nut and bolt holding it together) so that I could get the saddle height to about the same as the saddle height on the midlifecrisismobile, put the junky Cutter saddle onto it, and installed it instead of the steel seatpost and vinyl Murray saddle that I’d put on last night. I hand-fitted a crankset onto the super-wide bottom bracket (I’m going to have to replace it with a narrower one, but for now it will make a good chainline for a fixie build) and carried it upstairs to compare it to the mlcm.
In a lot of ways, the geometry is a clone of the project bike – it’s gonna be way too long to use mustache bars on, and I may have to put the Ava (or Gary) handlebars on to get it to fit properly.
I’m waffling over whether to keep this threaded super-low-trail Ticino fork (needs to be cut off, and I’d need to cut apart the existing quill so I can rebuild it to -17° ) or to just plunk the Long Haul Trucker fork I got last year under it (would also need me to cut the steertube, but the LHT fork has midfork mountpoints for a proper front rack) so I’ll probably just leave the machine unridable until I get the wheels laced up (which will require finding a track hub for fixie purposes.)