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So, yes, I know, it's the old cliche of finding your unicorn and the Yeti ARC seems to be a fair few people's unicorns, and why should it not be? It's iconic. The only way I could see myself getting an ARC was by getting a cracked one and have Frank restore it for me, cue: Jeff AKA sidekick416 coming to my rescue. This was a fair few years ago, to cut a long story short I asked Jeff to send the frame directly to Frank, far cheaper than sending it half way around the globe the twice!
So here's the before picture:
The frame had a cracked seat tube and headtube which Frank replaced:
A while later Frank got to grips with the restoration, it was scary to watch it unfold as he took the busted tubes off the frame:
Alas he's the ultimate of metallurgical magicians and soon enough it was ready for paint:
Yes, the frame size has been dropped a little bit, that was Frank's artistic license, and the fact I have inherited stubby legs from my dad!
At this point there was a long wait between the frame being ready to go to Spectrum and them doing the paint job as I have a bike team to run and that was taking all my spare cash! Took a fair while to save the required small fortune for Spectrum to sort the frame out and during that time I was agonising over the actual paint job itself. In the 90's I longed for the team's turquoise and yellow, however I fancied something a little different, I considered a turquoise front with a white rear but this would have clashed with my predominantly purple parts, and that was my decision made for me, yellow and purple, perfect:
I had been hoarding parts for this build long before I had found the frame, it all tied in nicely with a purple, silver and black build, with just a smidge of turquoise:
I had a couple of issues with the bottom bracket and the Topline cranks, it was a complete pain in the arse to get the right axle length. In the end I purchased a cheap used Royce BB and then sent it to Cliff along with my crankset for him to take measurements and sort it all out for me, the result is a perfect fit, but what a right old faff on!
I don't have any build photos as I was too lazy.... I will pop the full build on the next update for you all.......
So here's the before picture:
The frame had a cracked seat tube and headtube which Frank replaced:
A while later Frank got to grips with the restoration, it was scary to watch it unfold as he took the busted tubes off the frame:
Alas he's the ultimate of metallurgical magicians and soon enough it was ready for paint:
Yes, the frame size has been dropped a little bit, that was Frank's artistic license, and the fact I have inherited stubby legs from my dad!
At this point there was a long wait between the frame being ready to go to Spectrum and them doing the paint job as I have a bike team to run and that was taking all my spare cash! Took a fair while to save the required small fortune for Spectrum to sort the frame out and during that time I was agonising over the actual paint job itself. In the 90's I longed for the team's turquoise and yellow, however I fancied something a little different, I considered a turquoise front with a white rear but this would have clashed with my predominantly purple parts, and that was my decision made for me, yellow and purple, perfect:
I had been hoarding parts for this build long before I had found the frame, it all tied in nicely with a purple, silver and black build, with just a smidge of turquoise:
I had a couple of issues with the bottom bracket and the Topline cranks, it was a complete pain in the arse to get the right axle length. In the end I purchased a cheap used Royce BB and then sent it to Cliff along with my crankset for him to take measurements and sort it all out for me, the result is a perfect fit, but what a right old faff on!
I don't have any build photos as I was too lazy.... I will pop the full build on the next update for you all.......
very nice, that looks well worth the effort
