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Gags
Guest
Suze,
What would be a ball park figure for materials to build up a frame??
I have recently been making enquiries about converting an old mtb to
horizontal dropouts and taking all of the brake cable lugs off for a smooth
looking SS. I made some enquiries to Gripsport and they provided me with a
quote of $320 for removal of lugs, conversion to horizontal dropouts
(includes gussets between seat and chain stays for strength and resetting of
width between dropouts to suit 110mm hub), and preparation/powder coating
the frame. They also added the advice that I may be over capitalising on
such and old frame (this only increased my opinion of them as this advice is
clearly not in their best interest $ wise).
I have also looked at a few prices on the net for On-One and Surly frames
and they seem to be around the $750 or so just for the frame and I am not
sure that I will be able to get one big enough.
I am now toying with the idea of making a SS frame up from scratch (inspired
by your efforts) and I was wondering what rough order of magnitude I am
looking at in the finance department.
I also seem to recall that you had a link to a site to calculate frame
angles/geometries etc (I will have to check your site again to confirm).
Did you end up using this or did you calculate angles manually?
Ride On,
Gags
What would be a ball park figure for materials to build up a frame??
I have recently been making enquiries about converting an old mtb to
horizontal dropouts and taking all of the brake cable lugs off for a smooth
looking SS. I made some enquiries to Gripsport and they provided me with a
quote of $320 for removal of lugs, conversion to horizontal dropouts
(includes gussets between seat and chain stays for strength and resetting of
width between dropouts to suit 110mm hub), and preparation/powder coating
the frame. They also added the advice that I may be over capitalising on
such and old frame (this only increased my opinion of them as this advice is
clearly not in their best interest $ wise).
I have also looked at a few prices on the net for On-One and Surly frames
and they seem to be around the $750 or so just for the frame and I am not
sure that I will be able to get one big enough.
I am now toying with the idea of making a SS frame up from scratch (inspired
by your efforts) and I was wondering what rough order of magnitude I am
looking at in the finance department.
I also seem to recall that you had a link to a site to calculate frame
angles/geometries etc (I will have to check your site again to confirm).
Did you end up using this or did you calculate angles manually?
Ride On,
Gags