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I finally have my frame, after having built up the new softail... :clap:

 

Need to spend some time with a bit of light sanding - she needs some TLC...

When the Singlespeed.co.za boys get back to me with their stock of Blackspire chainrings - I'll be in business... :D

 

Here be the frame - very old-skool!

 

 

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This shot sort of shows the ovalisation of the toptube as it meets the seatpost... The same is done down below, where the seattube meets the BB...

 

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The headtube is ridiculously long... :)

Took off an inch of steerer when we fitted its fork to the new frame...

 

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Here be close-ups of Sandvik's 'window treatment' to the dropouts... :thumbup:

 

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When people told me I needed to upgrade my brakes, I used to respond I had already upgraded from canti's... :P

 

Will pop up some pics after I've cleaned the frame...

Not the lightest - weighs in at 1,550kg's - but a decent place to start, I guess!

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I'm thinking of either trying my hand at home-made "lazer etching" (which in all likelihood would involve me covering the relevant parts with a thin metal layer (aluminium can etc) - with the cutouts in place - and then taking some very, very rough sandpaper to the exposed parts.... OR - going for a bit of airspray loving... PM'ed a Hubber to hear if he's happy with his paintwork sticking to titanium...

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I'm thinking of either trying my hand at home-made "lazer etching" (which in all likelihood would involve me covering the relevant parts with a thin metal layer (aluminium can etc) - with the cutouts in place - and then taking some very, very rough sandpaper to the exposed parts.... OR - going for a bit of airspray loving... PM'ed a Hubber to hear if he's happy with his paintwork sticking to titanium...

 

RodTi

 

Get a fine bead blast, and leave it at that. Sweet frame. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

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RodTi, is that Michellin sticker the one on which he's shouldering a bike?

 

Hey TW - though about doing that.

Decided against it since he appears to be doffing his hat to the Cyclocross boys - and I'm not there... yet... :rolleyes:

 

The pic below was from a series of pics, if I recall correctly. The the one I saw - and the one you're presumably talking about - had the bike he's on over the shoulder. Googled it now - and it appears to have disappeared... <_<

 

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The sticker that I do have on, is similar to my avatar, with him running [oh the irony].

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Here's the sticker I have on one of my SS bikes…Hog described it as a CX bike on 'roids, so it's kinda apt!

 

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See the bike here if you haven't before:

 

Alice

 

Madness - that's one hippy Alice TW! One of my very first threads up on the Hub, was me looking for info on my old frame. A fellow Hubber - might even have been TitusTi(?) popped up a google images' pic, of a DBR frame with the Michelin man on the front... It kind of stuck with me from then on... When Tyerone started his decal sales - I figured 'why not' - I needed something to cover that huge headset space :) ...

 

Glad I never went with the cyclocross option - since you clearly had 1st, proper dibs! :thumbup:

 

Oh - and of course, me in lycra occasionally comes close to Mr. Michelin! :D

 

You still got your ride? I must be honest in that I've toyed with the idea myself... Especially with the cantilever brace at the back - reckon it wouldn't be too difficult, I'd need a rigid canti fork up front, and bob would be my uncle...

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