How to waste an afternoon when I’m feeling sickly
This is almost a clone of the mountainhack with notes from the last few months of riding it around. The gory details of this frame are:
- lugged, because I had them lying around and I’m lazy
- 72.5° headtube
- 73.5° seattube
- ~585mm effective top tube (the TT has a ~2.5° slope)
- 480mm C-C seattube
- 430mm chainstays
- ~55mm BB drop
- 25.4 TT, 28.6 ST, DT
- 130mm rear axle spacing, maybe?
- 650b with, hopefully, room to fit up to a Pari-Moto
- 3 sets of bottle mounts
- DT port for electrical wiring
- NDS chainstay port for electrical wiring
- canti studs or centerpull brake studs. Probably canti studs, because I’m happy with V-brakes + travel agents, but if I can find centerpulls that actually stop a bicycle I’d be all ears.
- mount for an NDS chain/seat(?)stay taillight
Should I glue in disc mounts? I don’t know how long I’ll be able to scrounge for rim-brakable 650b rims, and I’m NOT going to spend $100/rim for something that will erode away in 20,000 miles.
I’m going to make a fork for this thing, and I was thinking of drilling the steertube for completely internal wiring, but the lure of carpet fiber forks is not to be ignored and if I fabricate this frame with the assumption of a steertube port I’d be unhappily draping wire around the frame if a carpet fiber fork fell into my lap.