Folding Bikes, Recumbent Bikes & Trikes, Cargo Bikes, Tandems, Custom Framebuilding
This was a lovely handmade Soulcraft frame, which had an unfortunate high-speed incident with a bench – the rider also lost a couple of teeth, but he was probably more upset about the damage to his bike!
So I made a new headtube and downtube, and fillet brazed them in.
Repainted, and it’s as good as new!
Not a pretty sight – a lovely Rivendell-made Saluki frame with a big dent in the head tube. Fixed it with a special expanding tool inside the head tube and some careful hammering on the outside, now good as new without having to replace the tube.
With a new paint job, it looks gorgeous:
New bottom bracket shell, originally uploaded by Ben Cooper.
A courier bike where the bottom bracket shell off as he was riding along…
On-One dropout modification, originally uploaded by Ben Cooper.
Modifying a track dropout to be strong enough to take the Rohloff OEM1 plate.
S&S into odd size tube, originally uploaded by Ben Cooper.
I used a shim to fit an S&S coupling to a non-standard top tube diameter – works quite well I think 😉
Surly dropouts on a Kona, originally uploaded by Ben Cooper.
Today’s interesting repair job – the original dropout snapped, so replaced them with Surly’s horizontal mech hanger dropouts.