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These are fine but also a little bit annoying

So I feel confident I can do this with silver. Let's find out.
Thick powder will most likely cover the details yes. But thick powder isn't really where I want to go.

@cheekysnaker I will consider 3 arms. But Stayer Cycles have been using art 303 style cable guides for a while and it seems to work for them. I've not used them myself yet.

I will try and get some cut with both two and three prongs/arms and see what's needed.

:)

Is this AI?

Sure they don't want Tig welded ti, Enve and CK aeroset?

Let's have a discussion about cable guides. I'll start. Zip ties are annoying because plastic, but smart, but also annoying for quick disassembly f
of folding bikes etc. But also it is often a place where paint is compromised.

I like the idea of "art. 303" type cable guides but they are ugly and flimsy. And paint is also compromised here often. Enter this idea for a 1.5mm stainless Happy Huggy™ cable guides. They will also losse their painted surfaces eventually but stay stainless and patinate pretty.
And they will be more rounded and elegant and they wont bend as easy.

Yes?

Yes definitely.

I still have the frame and seat post if you are interested.
Its a surly cross check but modified

Thanks. There is no doubt it will both be a hassle and very very expensive.

But this is the way

Soooo, I was actually expecting to have @Pish 's frameset done around the beginning of February, but stuff happened. Like it always does :)
At the end of last year my wife landed a great gig curating and designing an exhibition about inventions. But then right after Christmas she got her dream full time job at a highly sought for exhibition design studio in Copenhagen. Luckily she can start part time there until the other exhibition is finished and ready to open. To get her over this period of working two jobs I am stepping in as her CAD monkey / junior designer. The pay is great and everyone is happy, but it does mean framebuilding and bottle cage making is pushed to late hours, weekends and when there is breaks in the design process.
This also means that we are likely headed to Copenhagen come summer. This is pretty exciting stuff for many reasons, but it will also be a period of time where navigating deadlines and workshop facilities will be tricky. So might take on a little less frame work in 2024 and focus on builds for exhibitions and bottle cages. We will se what happens.

I did manage to get into the workshop and finish the chainstay sub assembly. I almost always do the front triangle first, but for this build i decided I wanted to get the chainstays right first and then add the rest of the tubes.

The rest of the frame is a walk in the park now

This is so lame. WTF fuck have I created

Thats are spot on

This is my go to site http://yojimg.net/bike/web_tools/trailcalc.php

Maybe I should do a YT video on how to measure geometry

I have just sent them an email!

And thanks. It is such a rush. When I had the idea over a year ago I was hesitant to start developing the cages because how would I ever be able to make them fast enough and compete with big brands and mass production facilities. But here we are. This definitely taught me to pursue dreams a bit more tenaciously

Yes obvs. And they don't seem to have any cages on their site!

I think I'll just shoot them an email. Thanks!

Yes boss. I will see what I can do

Well, I will have fresh stock by the end of February for sure and have a couple of distributors that might need stuff before.
Another solution for you might be Blue Lug. They have bought stock, but it doesn't seem to be available on their webshop yet.

No sorry.
The shop in question didn't want more stock and already had King cages in stock 🤷
It looks like I have a South Korean distributor soon. Does that help on shipping maybe?
I'll put some more work into finding distribution around the world... But I am thinly spread over various tasks already and I am currently sold out.

How about one of those August barrel nut solutions?

Arghh thats annoying. It is a similar situation on my winter road bike.. which I build before designing the cages. Unfortunately there is not much I can do to change the design. Slightly longer slot could be a possibilty but it compromises aesthetics.

Actually @Maj 's bike is the same on the seat tube as I finalised the design of the cages right after making Marge. I filled the slots longer to have the cage clear the downtube.

yes exactly

You won't be able to fit two cages. They'll collide

I hate it when I buy bike parts and find out they don't fit. It is so easy to include specs or a drawing