Festival of bodges?
The front half of the fillet-brazed frame I’m (finally) building to replace the carbon steel SE Draft frame that’s currently holding the bits of my IGH project bike. The plan was to have matched HTA/STA, but when I had to trim back the overlong DT & TT I didn’t cut the TT quite far enough back, so the ST is .4° laid back from the HT. The BB is about 1-2mm offset towards the DS (it’s a 70mm BB, so I can just face that side down, but it’s still a bit annoying) and I somehow rotated the ST about 5° while brazing it in, so the bottle bosses aren’t quite centered (fixable by melting the bosses out, slotting the mounting holes, then fitting them into a reinforcing plate before brazing them back onto the machine, but before I do that I’ll just try out a bottle cage and see if it matters.)
Even though I fillet-brazed the mountainhack’s rear triangle and that survived a thousand miles of riding and being hit by a car (with me on it) I’m not completely confident that the brazes on this thing won’t spontaneously disintegrate as soon as I build it up and ride it around. Just as well that my plan is to have the thing be primarily a city shopping bike, because that way if it disassembles under load I’d only be a bus or trolley ride away from home.