Mat: That sounds like a killer design; please keep us posted. If it was good enough for Jobst, it probably is good enough for the rest of us.
I suppose that the longer tt is for sweepback bars? May I crassly inquire about the tab? I'll confess to mine (Chauncey Matthews): he wants $1,800, I told him, $2K if you swap over all the parts, I anticipate $2.5K ceiling for respacing Surly fixed rear hub and other unexpected incidentals; the result being old wine in new skins, to wit, old parts on new frame. (Old wine in new skins is fine; it's new wine that bursts old skins.) On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 4:33 PM Mat Grewe <matgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've always been a one bike guy and my bike, a Bianchi Super Grizzly from > the early 80's, is needing to get retired. I had the crack in the > chainstay patched/fixed, the guy did such a great job, I put in an order > for a custom to replace the frame. It is essentially a fillet brazed 650b > Atlantis with thru-axle disc brakes, longer top tube, slacker seat tube > angle, dynamo routing, threadless headset, and seat stays that join behind > the seat tube rather than the side (big thighs that rub on those > protrusions!). > > The nice thing about living in southwest Wisconsin, where the cost of > living is pretty darn low, is a custom frame is the same or less than stock > steel frames made in the US. I tried to avoid going the custom route, but > when I found nothing out there that would quite fit, plus the next best > options were around the same price, oddly enough a custom didn't feel like > such an indulgence. At 29, I'm looking forward to riding this bike > exclusively for many years to come. Jobst Brandt got 20+ years out of his > last Peter Johnson frame, so I'm hoping that I can get somewhere in that > ballpark too. > > Frame should be done and built up in a couple weeks, and if I remember, I > can post a picture here once it is done. > > Mat > Driftless Wisconsin > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/e41ef495-3b76-48f7-ac5a-954303440aeb%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/e41ef495-3b76-48f7-ac5a-954303440aeb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/CALuTfgtRHpVwGG%3DA1AZSmdPVxWmXq9qC%3Dn%3D324bdXb63vY5DCg%40mail.gmail.com.
