Alves 531 Fillet Brazed

[Dale cannon]

Would be a bit busy what with brake saddle and cantis. Would it allow enough pull/saddle height?

This link seems to show the differences...

http://gregcycling.blogspot.co.uk/2013/ ... tions.html

 

[The History Man]

Exactly. The blue bike is a cx with skinny tyres and wider canti. Yours (well mine today) will be running more than 35mm I presume and normal mtb Sizes. Will be tight I think.

 

[widowmaker]

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I am more than a little jealous, I was seriously considering this, but I am in the process of a purge of bikes too so couldn't justify having another MTB.

I went for the Roberts instead

I was a little gutted about the Roberts, it's probably the only frameset that I would swap on of my current ones for. If you ever have to let it go please give me a shout!

I will do

What colour code is this Alves ?

And what gear changers are you going to use ?

 

[Dale cannon]

Exactly. The blue bike is a cx with skinny tyres and wider canti. Yours (well mine today) will be running more than 35mm I presume and normal mtb Sizes. Will be tight I think.

True, I'll have a look when I get it and see what works best.

 

[Dale cannon]

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What colour code is this Alves ?

And what gear changers are you going to use ?

Not sure of the colour code, I had my Raleigh painted a similar looking by Brian Rourke and it was called wild fire red.

It will be running as a single speed to start with. Not sure of gearing yet, I run 52x19 on my road bike in a pretty hilly area so maybe 46x18 to start with and adjust from there.

 

[Dale cannon]

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Crank arms (and pedals!!!) sorted...a little polish needed I think.

 

[The History Man]

Are you pimping this?

Got a big bag of redness

 

[Dale cannon]

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No, I'm not into the anodised thing. The pedal is stuck in the arm so comes included for free.

 

[NeilM]

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This should be a fun build. I think it will work well as an all roader but make sure you get the gearing right so you can get it moving, as that's when the tubing really starts to work.

I have a canti hanger like the one you showed fitted to my Arthur Caygill and it works fine.

When I built up 'our' Rourke, I used modern cx canti's and they worked brilliantly, much better than either 90's stuff or V brakes.

 

[Dale cannon]

Thanks for the info Neil. The front brake set up on your Caygill is exactly what I had in mind.

I always miss the Rourke but the toptube was too long and the headtube was too short so hopefully this will be a worthy successor.