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[Closed] Visit to the local frame builder - Shiny 953 29r goodness

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 tang
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My week of all things bike rolls on. Yesterday I spent a very enjoyable lunchtime with Ted James, frame builder, serious rider and nice bloke . He has moved in down the road and will be fabricating in steel and ti on my doorstep! Looking forward to some rides also. Anyway this beauty was in:
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/56594563@N07/9934049073/ ]Ted James's workshop[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/56594563@N07/ ]tangwyn[/url], on Flickr[/img]
953 with some amazing tube work and forming to the steel, internal cables. Ted does his own custom headtubes also.
reynolds/tune wheels, xx1, carbon lefty, syntace bars/stem. shade over 23lbs even with all the tubing.
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/56594563@N07/9933958084/ ]Ted James's workshop[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/56594563@N07/ ]tangwyn[/url], on Flickr[/img]
custom lug with reynolds decal nicely full of mud.
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/56594563@N07/9933952974/ ]Ted James's workshop[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/56594563@N07/ ]tangwyn[/url], on Flickr[/img]
Check the forming and shot finish.
i'd love a custom frame.....


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 10:05 am
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Hideous IMO


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 10:08 am
 tang
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its a client request and an experiment in what can be done with 953 tubing. Reynolds were so impressed that he's working with them on lots of projects.


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 10:14 am
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I'm all for trying something new and diferent, and that looks extremely well made. But it isn't half fugly. Its like someone started a cruiser-style frame, got distracted halfway, but decied to carry on regardless.


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 10:33 am
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Oh my eyes - truly fugly.


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 10:39 am
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Oh my eyes - truly fugly.


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 10:40 am
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Beauty, not imho. Device to demonstrate a range of production techniques you might like (a couple of!) in your new frame, very good.


 
Posted : 26/09/2013 10:42 am

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