Back in 2004, if I remember correctly, Juergen held a bike building party at his house. Lots of people showed up with projects in varying stages of completeness. At this party, I started building my own bike. Since I don’t actually live in Ottawa anymore, the project has been languishing a bit since then. I have continued to work on it every so often, and hopefully after my travels, I’ll be somewhere convenient to finish working on it. Since some folks (hi Vic!) have expressed an interest in it, I figured I’d put up a post about the basic idea behind the bike.

First I took a crappy mountain bike.

I chopped off the top tube,

Then with Juergen’s help, a couple pieces of square stock were brazed on:

Then, a piece of round tubing was welded to a bottom bracket shell. The other side of this tube was filed down to fit against the head tube. The next step will be to braze that on.

The wheels have been replaced with 20 inch wheels, to put me closer to the ground (the shortie that I am). This means, I’ll need to braze on some braze-ons to attach the brakes, fenders, etc, where they need to go. Then I’ll have to make a seat. The finished product should look something like:

Cable routing is not going to be fun.

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