servodude wrote:UncleEbenezer wrote:Dod101 wrote:I do not understand why the top horizontal rail is so short that you need to have a horizontal extension to push the handlebars further forward. Obviously that explains why the whole bike looks foreshortened to me and the result is that the wheels are very close together. Does that affect stability?
As you can gather I am being totally non technical. It looks very smart though.
Dod
I don't see what you're talking about at all there: it looks pretty bog-standard to me - at least for a frame from the era before the gear shifts migrated to the handlebars. Has the picture changed since you posted that?
The chainrings do look slightly odd. Would the bike originally have had a triple, or just two?
I've just had a mental image of Dod on a chopper
Well many many moons ago I had a touring bike, lightweight for its time, with dropped handlebars and derailleur gears (which I did not like very much and regarded them as fancy new stuff) They also tended to get damaged because I was not always on made up roads. I had a large map of Scotland on my bedroom wall and covered just about all the roads on it over a period of about 4/5 years/ I have also had several other bikes over the years but none that I took as seriously as during that period of my youth when I practically lived on my bike.
Dawes was always a good make.
Dod