I don’t really remember but it was paper thin trying to weld it.
I really messed up that weld so I think that is why it failed.
I will look at my BFS invoices to see what tube it was.
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Project tracklocross.
I wanted a fixie in the style of my mtb, long - low etc. yadda yadda
I also wanted an excuse to make a seattube/tyre cutout; so I made the chainstays ludicrously short.
I also used forkblades for seatstays: I thought it would look cool because of the taper, but they just look too big.
It was massively unbalanced. I didn’t like it - it still hangs up in my workshop.
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Sounds like a reason to join the short crank craze gang?
I’m really enjoying this thread
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That notched seat tube reminds me of the time I did the below to some chainstays. It was interesting exercise but I wasn’t happy with it for obvious reasons so ended up just cutting the stays off altogether and putting straight ones in instead which fit much better and didn’t even need dimpling.
This was for a sort of “gravel” frame but for which I already had a Shimano road crankset. It turns out those are really quite narrow. I needed notches on both sides for the crank arms and an extra one on the DS for the chainring.
Would it have ridden OK? Probably would have been fine actually. But we will never know as those chainstays are now in my scrap pile and bits of them have already been recycled 
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Maybe a third frame I built. Made it in a hurry and the miters didn’t quite fit right. I though a degree or two off doesn’t matter. Turns out it did matter and the seatpost was almost vertical. I think I took this photo, stripped the parts and the frame has been sitting in storage since.
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It looks fine! On my first frame I forgot that you have a lower stack so ended up with the TT sloping down slightly. Nothing real people would notice but it bugged me.
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