Back in October I posted about this bike and how I’d given it a faux patina. I never cared for the lines of this bike and decided to correct it by making a slight alteration to the down tube.
I didn’t like the angle at which the original downtube met up with the bottom bracket. I would be using a conduit elbow I had that was the same diameter as the bikes downtube to replace what I cut out. That didn’t go as planned because I only measured once before cutting. So I ended up making a drastic change to the downtube.
For better or worse, here’s what I ended up with…
I rode it 20some miles in to the big city to get these photos. If I decide to keep the bike I’ll have to do a little more work on my welds and the patina of the new tubing.