Comments on: Christine's New Bike

By: Izzy

Izzy — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:27:03 +0000

About those grips. I believe you mean “GP1.” The GC1s have only been recently released.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:42:23 +0000

Nice!
If you don”t mind, may I ask what Christine’’s PBH and height are? I”m planning to build a Buena Vista for my fiancee, and I”m gathering data to try to decide what size frame to buy for her.
Thanks!

By: Steve Chan

Steve Chan — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:45:37 +0000

That’’s a nice bike – at first I was a little surprised that it wasn”t outfitted with a dynohub as well, but then things became clear! There was a Buena Vista frameset at the LBS near my old apartment, and had I seen it in time, I would have bought it and built up a very similar bike for my wife as well.

By: AlexWetmore

AlexWetmore — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:05:01 +0000

They are from Jitensha Cycles in California.

By: Bob Clark

Bob Clark — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:15:06 +0000

Where did you find the handlebars? I”ve been looking for something like those for a while.

By: AlexWetmore

AlexWetmore — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:23:27 +0000

Yeah, they are oriented as they are to allow the dropout adjusters to work. The right dropout adjuster hole wasn”t drilled quite straight, so the adjuster ends up in the upper half of the slot instead of the middle. They are well seated (better than it looks in that photo).

By: Fred Blasdel

Fred Blasdel — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:37:36 +0000

I saw that first picture but thought it was just a Honjo-style fender stay clip — I didn”t notice the fillet-brazed noodle!

You should be careful about making sure that the teeth on the anti-rotation washers ares well-seated in the dropouts. I would swap them L-R so that the tooth was on the inside, but that might interfere with the dropout adjusters on this frame.

By: AlexWetmore

AlexWetmore — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:48:21 +0000

Christian — It was the right price, available frame only, and had all of the right brazeons. I always prefer to buy locally when I can, and having one of these built up to test ride at Free Range Cycles just made the decision that much easier. The Handsome looks good, but I like to inspect bikes in person when possible. You might have noticed that I”m picky.

By: AlexWetmore

AlexWetmore — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:45:30 +0000

Fred — For another bike I made a special bolt on part which ran housing the full length of the chainstay, but allowed the cable to exposed on the downtube. That worked well. There is a photo of it here:
http://alexandchristine.smugmug.com/Bicycles/Bicycles/Soma-Mixte/11485257_TSETx#808071532_Br7Fy
and here:
http://alexandchristine.smugmug.com/Bicycles/Projects/Nexus-Cable-Stop/11024831_Zrjw7#771133978_8xw3E

Sorry about the lighting, I took that with a flash on a late night point83 ride. I”ll probably make another one for Christine’’s bike until it is ready for powder coat, and then I”ll move the stop.

By: AlexWetmore

AlexWetmore — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:42:55 +0000

David — Christine is 5”1″ and this is the 50cm frame. For 5”6″ I think the 54 would be right, if not on the small end. Size based on the virtual top tube length and the type of handlebars that you”ll be using.