Wester Ross bike with new pictures 08/03

[randynewmanscat]

Yes they are the same lugs, frame is elsewhere but I found pics. Cinelli investment cast fork crown. Custom rear brake cable damage. The deore xt brakes are from the deer head times.

 

[biggs682]

Yes they are the same lugs, frame is elsewhere but I found pics. Cinelli investment cast fork crown. Custom rear brake cable damage. The deore xt brakes are from the deer head times.

Nice colour .
@randynewmanscat you can't tease us like that we need more pictures .
Is it a Wester Ross ?

 

[randynewmanscat]

Nice colour .
@randynewmanscat you can't tease us like that we need more pictures .
Is it a Wester Ross ?

It is. I will see if I can find some pictures. I had the frame painted for the fourth or fifth time a couple of years ago and not rebuilt a bike from it yet. The frame is in England and the boxes of bike parts here in mainland Europe

 

[biggs682]

@randynewmanscat sounds a bit complicated but sure you have it all under control

 

[randynewmanscat]

Its not complicated, sometimes its difficult to remember what is in England and what's stored here. I found some digital images. The interesting ones are from the early 80's and on good old Ektachrome when that frame was wearing mainly European parts. I mean to scan them some time as there are some memories from tours in Europe.
I attach three poorly lit images of frame after C&G finishes stoving job, I had it finished with livery this time, same colour as always, different shade each time. The other images taken before I stripped it to have the downtube replaced by Neil Orrell, you can see the crease I created via poor parking. The lugs i remember now as there was a chance i was going to lose the downtube lug, Neil had one set of Haden Concorde lugs and even he was surprised to find them. The lug survived unscathed. Swinnerton in Stoke took a brazing torch to the frame in the late 80's to silver braze the cantilever bosses, it started life with Mafac centre pulls. The stays I had sent to me before the frame was built, a good friend owned a plating company in the North West and they got loving treatment before being sent back to Whitby. The chrome used to reach to the bridge but brake boss brazing and crashes have taken their toll. The head tube badge is wrong, it is from the earlier workshop up in Scotland before he moved to Lythe
Hats off if you can identify two components/parts on the full bike picture that now command vastly inflated prices if in unused condition.

 

[biggs682]

In a good way @randynewmanscat your bike is almost like trigger's broom , but you must really have an attachment with it and for that i salute you sir and long may the relationship continue

 

[randynewmanscat]

Here is the other one. I bought this one elsewhere, it is sparse on braze ons, i would love to know what the original owner had to say about his (likely he) order. The lug brazing is super, when the original paint is walnut blasted the silver braze will look like lining on the lugs. I will post when I eventually get around to it.

 

[biggs682]

Here is the other one. I bought this one elsewhere, it is sparse on braze ons, i would love to know what the original owner had to say about his (likely he) order. The lug brazing is super, when the original paint is walnut blasted the silver braze will look like lining on the lugs. I will post when I eventually get around to it.

Very nice

 

[randynewmanscat]

A very happy day today, my favourite bike frame arrived in a pallet box with a few cases of Warsteiner* 660ml and sundry other weirdness. This gets priority over a dechetterie find that I have started to renovate. I need posh bar tape, cables, chain, tyres and tubes and a day without the phone ringing.
The chrome on the seat stays used to extend to below the bridge but the canti posts came later after a joyless experience with some very pricey centre pulls so the chrome shrank. Swinnerton silver brazed the bosses, I bought the brakes from them, Shimano BR-MC70. Those brakes do work.
John Connell signature capped wrap over seat stays. The taper and curve over the seat tube is simple but very artful.
Shimano used to make very nice and just as agricultural looking as Campagnolo dropouts, I had a friend hard chrome these and decorative chrome the stays and sent them back to the builder. I did it to save money and I knew the chrome would be very good.
Cinelli investment cast bracket with another John Connell speciality, the guide tubes have thick wall PTFE tube sleeves and at the outside ends there are small aluminium ferrule inserts.






*Warsteiner is available here but in poxy 330ml or 25cl bottles at extortionate prices for god knows what reason, I just don't think they sell much, the French prefer their own awful thin beer, or wine.

 

[biggs682]

@randynewmanscat can't wait to see this all built up and in use again

 

[randynewmanscat]

Nor can I Biggs, its been a very long time and for all the cr*p I have accumulated this is my favourite possession, its an old friend in whatever incarnation it has been in, always the same colour though. This is going to be a very enjoyable job for me.

 

[biggs682]

Nor can I Biggs, its been a very long time and for all the cr*p I have accumulated this is my favourite possession, its an old friend in whatever incarnation it has been in, always the same colour though. This is going to be a very enjoyable job for me.

Keep the pictures coming and enjoy it

 

[randynewmanscat]

The builders sent the build spec for signature approval and that is what they worked on.

 

[biggs682]

It's great to think a craftsman can make such a fabulous machine by the info on a piece of a4

 

[nonowt]

Lovely. Wester Ross are high on my dream frame list. You don't see them very often.