They will indeed do custom angles, as they did for Mark Chandler, but as even we non-framebuilders know, when you change one element of geometry, it affects several others. I don't really want to draw up a complete detailed design, so if most Mercian owners here find the standard Mercian geometry responsive, stable and comfortable on 100+ mile rides, I'll go with it and restrict my custom requests to brazeons, wheel clearance, etc.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
OROBOYZ@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/14/01 2:57:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, moos@penn.com
> writes:
>
> << One thoughtful offlist response was from someone who
> didn't like the rather steep, in his view, seat angle and rather slack
> head angle. He liked Grant's design better in terms of angles. >>
>
> One important difference is that Mercian (I am pretty sure) and numerous
> other builders in the UK (and in the USA!) will make any darn angles you
> want. If the design doesn't make sense to them, they may debate it a little
> with you but in general these are true customs, not a "take my philosophy or
> nothing."
>
> Dale Brown