Homebuild - Super V15

[M.J]

Damn, man! That is a rough day

 

[Rob Lloyd]

I dont' know . . . sounds like a few days filled with bike stuff. As the saying goes, the worst day of golf is better than the best day at the office!

Hope the eye heals . . . and the tubing arrives.

Maybe I'll see you on Zwift. Leaving the office in a few and headed home for a trainer ride

You do have a point there. I guess I just hate ‘lost’ bike time... (where I don’t really accomplish anything).

 

[Rob Lloyd]

Figured out a way to salvage the seat stays using some aero tube I already had (just enough!). The rear dropout ‘stubs’ are a little longer and steeper angle than I had intended (and the aero tube is heavier than the tube I was going to use), but it will work.

Got this far and ran out of acetylene...

 

[Rob Lloyd]

Cleaned up the LH Seatstay a bit while I’m waiting for the chance to go get more gas...

 

[bladderhead]

Cut too much off the tubes: disaster! Found some more tubes: success! Sounds like the sort of thing that happens to me. I must be a genius engineer.

 

[Rob Lloyd]

Also made a jig to drill the seat, and to hold the seat tabs when I braze them onto the frame (using the standoffs). I want to be able to swap seats between bikes (I will have 3 that use the same mounting pattern).

 

[Rob Lloyd]

Real progress! Tacked up the main frame today. Had to try it with wheels just because. Frame weighs 4.5lb as-is; without the brake tab, cable stops, and missing a bit of brass of course.

 

[Rod Butler]

Bad day Monday...

1. I turned 50-something (instead of just plain old 50)
2. I got a steel splinter stuck in my cornea grinding on my seat stays (I had it taken out at urgent care yesterday, after I couldn’t get it to flush out on my own)
3. I messed up the RH seat stay; ground too much
4. No one has any bike tubing in stock anywhere - no new seat stays available (Doh!)
5. I had to change my rear dropout design to salvage the seat stays I do have; it will now be a bolt-on dropout, similar to my mid-racer design.
6. Had to order threaded bungs to make the bolt-on dropouts work

So, I’m taking a couple days off from bike building.
Think I’ll just go ride around Zwift instead...

Got some iron fillings in my eye once, thoroughly stuck in there.
...went to the doctor who pulled a small magnet out of his drawer.
BINGO--- had it out in a second. Always keep one handy these days.
Thanks for all the Photos, great stuff.
Happy New Year Everyone

 

[Rob Lloyd]

Made the gusset yesterday from a scrap of 4130 streamline tube I had used on my RWD mid-racer, and flowed all the joints last night.
Need to cut out the brake tab today and get that stuck on there. Then fillet everything.

 

[benphyr]

Wow. You make it look so easy and beautiful.

 

[Rob Lloyd]

All brazed up, save for the seat tabs and cable stops. I might just have enough gas left to get them on this afternoon.

 

[Norton]

Thanks for the great thread. Really enjoying it! Yours skills are amazing! Wish I had them.

 

[Rob Lloyd]

Seat tabs and cable stops added this afternoon. Now to start filling the fillets...

 

[DocS]

Quite the craftsman!

Blessings,
Rudy

 

[3bs]

glad to see that gusset and the i beam. i was getting nervous for you.

 

[Rob Lloyd]

Filed a few fillets today...

 

[Rob Lloyd]

Worked on the fork last week. And, started on the main frame this morning.

 

[M.J]

Looks great!

 

[3bs]

great stuff.

what are you going to do for a d hanger?

 

[Rob Lloyd]

great stuff.

what are you going to do for a d hanger?

The rear? It’s built into the dropout.

The front? What derailleur...