I was working on my favorite steed (with a hammer). There is a certain zen to working on your bike with a hammer. What bike? A 1987 Linear Recumbent . But wait, I do have an on topic series of questions in this. I noticed I had built a very nice fork for it using track blades and a Cinelli track crown. So to the questions.
Much had been said about beginning framebuilders and whether they should go out and create or travel with significantly more caution. Is it something for everyone or only the select few? Can a trained monkey do it? Something has been very absent in this discussion.
1) Where would that master builder or trained monkey get the parts? I'm talking tubes, lugs, bottom brackets, crowns, drop outs, braze-ons?
Also while it is nice to try to keep old parts on the road there are a few crazies who might like to indulge themselves with modern index shifting and 130 mm dropout spacing. (It's on topic if it goes on a KoF frame) so...
2) Suntour used to have a small framebuilder program. Does anyone have something like that? Do you go to a distributor? LBS?
How does a framebuilder proceed beyond knowing how to braze?
Ahh, adjusting your steed with a 1 1/2 lb. fine alignment instrument.
Steve Leitgen
La Crosse, WI