Hopefully not as stupid a question as it sounds...
How do you know, or decide that a frame is finished, or what steps do you take to prepare it to be handed over to a customer and built up?
Hopefully not as stupid a question as it sounds...
How do you know, or decide that a frame is finished, or what steps do you take to prepare it to be handed over to a customer and built up?
Owen Byrne
Donard Bikes
This is you, right?
Irish Custom Bike Frames
What are your criteria?
Personally, I chase every damn thread and if it takes a bolt, it has one in it.
Full builds are ready to ride.
- Garro.
Steve Garro, Coconino Cycles.
Frames & Bicycles built to measure and Custom wheels
Hecho en Flagstaff, Arizona desde 2003
www.coconinocycles.com
www.coconinocycles.blogspot.com
A frame is finished when there are no steps left to prevent you from installing a full build kit. The BB cups thread in by hand, the headset presses in as it should, the seatpost slides in with proper clearance, all bolts thread in with two fingers, etc...
If anything needs to be done that is outside the realm of normal assembly, it's not finished.
Just my .02 Republic Credits, probably worth virtually nothing out on the rim.
Eric Doswell, aka Edoz
Summoner of Crickets
http://edozbicycles.wordpress.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edozbicycles/
In Before the Lock
Steve - yes that's me.
This is what I do once paint is complete...
(seat tube and headtube are reamed before paint)
Remove any paint that shouldn't be there (maybe that's part of the painting process)
Clean all the threads
Fit any bolts
Fit any cable guides
Fit the seat clamp (if it's not got a binder)
So as with Eric - I'm aiming for anything that's outside the realm of normal assembly.
And a full build should be ready to ride.
Owen Byrne
Donard Bikes
Steve Garro, Coconino Cycles.
Frames & Bicycles built to measure and Custom wheels
Hecho en Flagstaff, Arizona desde 2003
www.coconinocycles.com
www.coconinocycles.blogspot.com
Tidy paint.
Chase threads.
Grease most bolts.
Locktite the rest.
Joe Rowing
Blacklab Bikes
if it can't support what you want. disc brakes, electronic shifting, wider wheels or you realize the fit isn't right. industry spends a great deal of effort to convince you too. and many simply chuck their old frames out of boredom.
Eric Doswell, aka Edoz
Summoner of Crickets
http://edozbicycles.wordpress.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/edozbicycles/
In Before the Lock
I reckon the correct and concise answer is "When there is nothing left to do"
- Garro.
Steve Garro, Coconino Cycles.
Frames & Bicycles built to measure and Custom wheels
Hecho en Flagstaff, Arizona desde 2003
www.coconinocycles.com
www.coconinocycles.blogspot.com
Thanks for the comments guys.
Owen Byrne
Donard Bikes
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