edit: Complete bike pictures posted towards the end of the thread. See here and here if you're too lazy to scroll
So, haven't ridden in a while and have been contemplating building something up a little more trailbike-ish than my 35+ lb. Imperial. I've really lusted after an Evil Sovereign but they were just too far out of my price range.
All of a sudden, things fell into place all at once. I had a buyer who wanted my Imperial. And poof, a barely-used Sovereign appeared in the Buy&Sell forum. It had to be fate.
Swapped my 8" rotors for some 6" rotors + cash, shipped off the Imperial, and met up with Dogboy to score my new Sovereign frame. A stand up guy, by the way - he couldn't find the spacers I needed for the stem we included in the deal, so he threw in a handlebar gratis. And the frame is in awesome shape, barely a scratch on it.
So, without further ado, here is some bike porn for everyone to drool over.
Yep, that'd be the much-revered Reynolds 853 steel tubing:
Adjustable XX dropouts, awesome design:
Seat tube brace to allow good saddle height but maintain excellent standover:
Nice weld penetration there:
Can't wait to get it built up! Build pictures & notes tomorrow.
So, haven't ridden in a while and have been contemplating building something up a little more trailbike-ish than my 35+ lb. Imperial. I've really lusted after an Evil Sovereign but they were just too far out of my price range.
All of a sudden, things fell into place all at once. I had a buyer who wanted my Imperial. And poof, a barely-used Sovereign appeared in the Buy&Sell forum. It had to be fate.
Swapped my 8" rotors for some 6" rotors + cash, shipped off the Imperial, and met up with Dogboy to score my new Sovereign frame. A stand up guy, by the way - he couldn't find the spacers I needed for the stem we included in the deal, so he threw in a handlebar gratis. And the frame is in awesome shape, barely a scratch on it.
So, without further ado, here is some bike porn for everyone to drool over.
Yep, that'd be the much-revered Reynolds 853 steel tubing:
Adjustable XX dropouts, awesome design:
Seat tube brace to allow good saddle height but maintain excellent standover:
Nice weld penetration there:
Can't wait to get it built up! Build pictures & notes tomorrow.