One of a kind Lee Cooper E-stay

KondratievsBike

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I'm starting a build thread in the hope that one day I actually complete this and the thread compels me to do so... updates will be slow and sporadic I suspect.

I just love fillet brazing and so was a bit of a sucker when I saw this listed on ebay. We negotiated a price we could both live with and now, it's mine all mine...

The only E-stay that one of the great unsung (relatively) of British hand building ever made with chunky filets to hold the tandem tubing together... it will be either XT or Olympus or XC Pro depending on whether a XT U-brake or black Campag U brake or Suntour rollercam turns up first...

I'm thinking that if Mr Cooper still has decals it may get sprayed in gloss black with Salsa A La Carte rasta type additions but so much may change in the next three years 🙈. If not, it may just get a touch up and a coat of lacquer...
 

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Not much of an update but:

1. It looks very much like it's staying this colour; and
2. I seem to have acquired a nice Suntour Rollercam brake (always wanted an excuse for one of those) so it's going to have that; XC Pro and Diacompe SS7s/987s
Nice choices!!! I'd also consider SS5's vs. SS7's. Good luck on the Suntour hunt!!! 🤞

I LOVE a roller cam!!! 👌
 
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