This is not my bike, I stumbled across this while perusing marketplace and made me think of you guys in the subs
by Dangerous_Focus453
This is not my bike, I stumbled across this while perusing marketplace and made me think of you guys in the subs
by Dangerous_Focus453
16 Comments
That is A LOT of drilling and brazing and welding for one frame. Anyone with framebuilding expertise to tell us how sketchy it actually is ?
Aside from financially sketchy, that is.
Love silly projects like this but I wouldn’t buy it for half that price
That looks surprisingly well done.
I still wouldn’t ride it though
Send it!!
https://preview.redd.it/5g2dfkj9a8ae1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f967e21bf0cfc7e4bf356618b30bda21fb750b0f
Love it, but looks unfinished for the price. Internal routing seems excessive, probably just learnt brazing and got carried away.
Looks bad Todd
https://preview.redd.it/vrtbxy8qa8ae1.jpeg?width=760&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5dfa1ebfa6f6d55e813b18c29240f11686647c9f
I think it would be fine to ride, I probably wouldn’t bring it on singletrack given all the ho… just kidding yes I would send this
Excessive? Yeah, but so is putting $200 king headsets and Paul brakes on 40yo frames. Pretty damn well done? Also yeah. Would I ride/like to tinker w that bike? Hell yeah. Prolly wouldn’t pay a grand for it though.
Obviously the asking price is ridiculous, but to not even refinish it and ask that much is ballsy. Braze ons must’ve killed this person’s family or something because they avoided them at all costs.
What a useless way to ruin a bike.
Also, pretty sure you can pay an actual professional to add these braze-ons for a fraction of that price.
Funny, all the drilling and brazing to not do a full hydraulic run, with rim brake hoops. Knows how to braze this on, but could have done new dropouts to convert to TA…
At least it’s only a hard rock and not a stumpy.
Are those some sort of cable actuated hydraulic brakes? Cool, I never knew something like that existed.
A grand for a decades old frame that’s been butchered just to accommodate internally routed mechanical disc brakes is absolutely absurd.
All that’s missing is a radially spoked front wheel.
I’d ride the fuck out of that. People on this sub think adding disk brakes to an old frame will cause it to explode but sketchy brake extenders don’t get a reaction. It’s silly. That bike will be better than fine. And, $1,000 is probably a good deal if you compare it to what building that would cost.
However, I still think it’s a bad deal. Like most really personal projects, it’s really about the fun of making it yourself. Skipping to the end is kinda silly.
Filet brazing