Tuesday, May 27, 2008

JRA Continued

To be brief- I was unkind and anything but gentle to that poor frame. Results indicate that tubular steel structures really are ridiculously strong.

Coup de grĂ¢ce-

A cross section of the upper head tube lug. Clean filler penetration from tip to lip here (the thin silver streak between the lug and the tube). Check out flikr for a nice internal fillet shot from the same joint.

In other news I just started work on a his and hers set of town bikes. His will be a twin top tube paper boy (ala Hawthorne) and hers a step through. Tubes are on their way as we speak, and I'll be finishing up bilam pieces in the meantime.

1 comment:

Andrew Campbell said...

Twin top-tubes... I once rode stoker on a twin top-tube Bob Jackson racing tandem... holy mackerel! Traffic didn't dare try to pass us. It's a really nice look, indeed.

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A.