Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Touring-big tire-all-road go anywhere steel frame and fork

This customer is a veteran of the infamous 'Jobst" rides of the '80's and '90s and before , where folks would meet up in Palo Alto at Jobst Brandt's house and spend all day riding mixed terrain on road bikes with tubular tires. This bike should make that kind of riding a bit less daredevil and also have more load carrying features. The fork has braze-ons for the rack that the customer brought by. He also had me braze on a pump clip 'Peter Johnson' style for his custom painted Silca pump. There's some real throwback features such as Shimano SF dropouts that were culled from a framebuilder's stash-these dropouts have been out of production for maybe 20+ years. It was a cool build with the paint a nod to the Eddy Merckx frames of 30 years ago. I hope that the owner likes the way it rides. 
 


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