Just under a week now and I leave for Doug Fattic’s frame building class. I’ve got most of the parts I need for the frame here. The rest are being delivered to Doug’s shop hopefully this week or next. I’m super excited to go and build my first frame. I’ve talked with Doug a few times since my last post and the plans have changed slightly. It sounds like a 28.6 (the normal size on a “modern” road bike) steerer is something that will present a number of challenges for me as far as part selection and lugs. I ended up picking lugs that demand a 6 degree sloping top tube. Rather than deal with the slope (which is something I wasn’t wild about) Doug suggested we could try to do a bilaminate frame. So I’ll use the slanting lugs but cut off one end and fillet braze the tube to the remainder of the lug. This will a. look really cool and b. let me use whatever angle on the top tube I want (flat in this case).
I’ve got the tubing at my house, a big box of TrueTemper and various frame components from Henry James. For sure I open the box every day and stare at the tubes. Currently mystified on how this becomes a bike, thankfully I have Doug to guide me there. The rest of the components (aside from the rear hub, Chris King still hasn’t build 32 hole R45′s in red) have been ordered and I should have most if not all of them before I leave. Provided the front hub gets here I should have the front hub built before I go. If not eh… we’ll figure it out.
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