10 hour day at the Ranch
I may not have thought the chainstay placement through with the care it deserved. The breather holes are partly through the thread, which will make an internal cable routing conversion demanding in the future… like that will ever happen, but at the same time I’m thinking this kind of nice frame deserves having the cables hidden.
I welded the brake mounts mostly while still on the rear jig, partly with only the axle and jig fastened to the stay and a small seam while on the frame jig. Welding two separate mounts to the CS is such a silly thing to do! Twice the amount of things to twist with heat.
I hid two fender mounts on the inside faces of the STs so that the bike won’t look too practical. Still have to fabricate the bridges with fender mounts, but before that I’ll take the frame somewhere, where there is an actual 622 thru-axle wheel so that I can see how it fits.