Been a lot going on in my world, I have spent the last 8 months studying at CPIT doing a CAD certificate which is fun, learning heaps of cool programme's that will cross over to this stuff in particular. Haven't been doing a lot of riding, last winter was pretty nasty for illness and bugs so have stayed off my bike all winter and have been a lot better for it but its spring now and will be dusting off the bikes soon.
Have been pretty quiet in frame building land as living on a John Key student allowance with 4 people is just hard enough let alone trying to buy new tube sets for the mad ideas that are flowing from my head!
But have just about completed another little project which was one of my practice donor bikes.
It was a 1993 Kona xplosive frame that had been crashed and buckled in two ( i'll post some pics of the original down tube soon). So I was down in the work shop one night having a clean up (that rarely happens) and was wondering what I was going to do with the left over rear tri's, I was holding the HT in one hand and the rear tri in the other and thought why not put it back together, but with newer geometry so it could run a 120-140mm fork and braze on a disc tab?!
I made a call the next day to aircraft logistics and ordered some tubing and set it all out.
This is the result, a new skool kona xplosive with proper geometry for trail riding.
I'll do another post some time soon as there is another project in the wings that is being designed at school as my end of year tech project, more on that and the geometry of this frame later. Ponder this for a bit and see what you think. Rossco.
Looks fairly standard from here
This is where things get a bit wierd
Shot of the head tube junctions
Catch you soon............
