Razzo

R2S2 and I are gonna meet up soon and take it from there. Watch this space people! Sweet steel is headed your way!

100%. We needed to make a few changes to the HT to get the stem to the same height as the carbon frame with Integrated headset and because the carbon frame has a bike specific aero seatpost, we wanted to cover as much of the round seat post as possible with aero tube. Turned out to be about 7cm of round seatpost exposed and this was needed to attach the bottle mount any way, so that the bottles sit out of the wind behind Fed ass. Seems to be working based on the improvements made on the TT.

Hi there. I don't have a bought frame jig, but did make bits and pieces to build a jig for the frame (and fork), using a piece of flat, straight channel iron, that gets things in line. I always do a full size drawing to have good point of reference. Very very very accurate cutting /filing of tubes (mitre and length) is used to get the angles right. This is one of the most important aspects. Plenty of back and forth to the drawing to make sure no errors creep in. Everything is done by hand, no mills or lathes which is why it takes so bloody long! All this is followed by careful brazing to make sure things are not pulled off center. If you cant braze straight and compensate for slight inaccuracies in tubes, you are SCREWED! The geometry matches the Scott Plasma L/56 exactly, which is what Sir Fed wanted. We found subsequently that the seat tube could be a bit steeper, but will incorporate that into the next frame, which will be more of a "made to measure" frame.

The builder (me) has seen the light, and is trying to run the other way! Thanks for all the compliments! Makes the blood, sweat and swears almost seem worthwhile.