Dude builds TT bike for wife. Very cool.

Grill

http://imgur.com/a/YOAR8

Just shows what can be done with a bit of engineering know-how and access to the right equipment.

I don't understand why she needed an 85mm headtube if she was just going to run a massive stack of spacers though...

mfin

One, using the word "Dude" ??? hmmmm...

Secondly, it is quite interesting to see the steps, what I couldn't believe though is how someone can do all that and then not have any taste whatsoever when it came to the graphics at the end, that was the final stage called the "and now I want to ruin it and make it look right sh1t" stage.

Grill

mfin wrote:

One, using the word "Dude" ??? hmmmm...

BrandonA

madasahattersley wrote:

Man that's like totally neat!

Round seatpost looks a bit guff though, as does some of the components (7800 chainset on a 105 bottom bracket?). I think if I were putting so much time, effort and money into making a completely custom frame with my own 2 hands I'd at least kit it out with some nice new stuff.

All in all though pretty mega. I'd love to do something like that one day

Apart from having the technical skills I wonder if they are making the frame because they can't afford a decent one. Thus this is why lower tier components are being used.

Grill

BrandonA wrote:

madasahattersley wrote:

Man that's like totally neat!

Round seatpost looks a bit guff though, as does some of the components (7800 chainset on a 105 bottom bracket?). I think if I were putting so much time, effort and money into making a completely custom frame with my own 2 hands I'd at least kit it out with some nice new stuff.

All in all though pretty mega. I'd love to do something like that one day

Apart from having the technical skills I wonder if they are making the frame because they can't afford a decent one. Thus this is why lower tier components are being used.

Bingo! It says that they didn't have a lot of cash in the info blurb on the right.

lesfirth

madasahattersley wrote:

Man that's like totally neat!

Round seatpost looks a bit guff though, as does some of the components (7800 chainset on a 105 bottom bracket?). I think if I were putting so much time, effort and money into making a completely custom frame with my own 2 hands I'd at least kit it out with some nice new stuff.

All in all though pretty mega. I'd love to do something like that one day

He is probably in the process of making his own group set.

goonz

Thats actually pretty awesome. And to know she won on it.

IanRCarter

It's an interesting read, I haven't seen the process of building a frame from scratch before. I hope it now has a matching fork and some nice hand built deep section wheels, and that they've painted over that ghastly text.

mm1

Reminds me of when Justin Burls built my (Columbus steel) TT frame, started with drawings and an explanation of how he'd made the frame more compact than we'd originally agreed, pictures of the build in progress (lovely filet braising) and the finished article. I should post on here sometime.

If you liked this, you should have a look at the Berk Prototypes thread on weight wennies - a young man who has just finished his engineering degree and is a real artist with carbon (he's made some saddle / seatpin cobinations for Sky apparently).

woolwich

Awesome link. Thanks for sharing. Great to see how others do it.

This is my home made TT frame, paint drying at the moment. It will be shod in 8,9 and 10 speed items from Sram, Campag and Shimano.




I completely get why he may have skimped on the groupset. Partly as it is way down the list of priority's that will actually make you any faster after clothing and wheels and forks.
Partly a TT bike is just a tool, no one cares at the average Open what you are riding. This is the lovely side of grass roots sport. Its the time on the village hall wall at the end that matters.
Also if you are short of pennys, far better to spent it on travel to events and maybe the occasional B and B than vanity items.

Old_Timer

Interesting to see him using and applying some mechanical skills learned for his degree to make his lady a bicycle, and a TT at that. Nice machining and fabrication work done by him in making the frame set, as well as the welds. As an engineer the whole concept appeals to me and seems like a good thing to do especially considering they were both students and on the small end of the wages scales.