Retro-modern fusion gravel build madness. The new Superb!

[Mickeyspinn]

I'll need to wait for the frameset to arrive, which will probably take a few weeks. Check that all's in order, etc.
Until then I'm not allowing myself to get too excited.

Pics!
Specs would be a great start

 

[Woz]

Just shoot me, I bought another French frame.
I don't learn from my mistakes.
I'm an idiot.

Oh La La. Continue like this, you'll be recognised and fast-tracked for a Legion of Honour

 

[Mickeyspinn]

Oh La La. Continue like this, you'll be recognised and fast-tracked for a Legion of Honour

Possibly only one thing more masochistic than piecing together an old French bike is joining the foreign legion....

 

[M_Chavez]

I hear they wake them up in the middle of the night and make them fit a BSA BB into 35x1 shell

 

[Mickeyspinn]

I hear they wake them up in the middle of the night and make them fit a BSA BB into 35x1 shell

You heard that wrong...kinda....it's the middle of the night in the desert and with nothing more than barehands and a rusty spoon. Character building stuff

 

[M_Chavez]

It looks like the vintage steel market is a lot quieter on the continent.

Need... to... stop... looking...

Don't click this link.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134194278255?hash=item1f3e9a2f6f:g:n8sAAOSwUQhi-LdJ

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Buy it for your wife, I clicked

 

[M_Chavez]

Buy it for your wife, I clicked

That would be a waste of a good frame

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

That would be a waste of a good frame

Ouch! I built this for you dear, doesn't use it. Bits start to disappear....

 

[M_Chavez]

I was thinking of the next French fancy and thinking that it will be a weans' bike. I can either run 650B with extra long reach calipers, or braze on canti mounts myself.

I've tried googling for frame builder supplies and couldn't find any in the UK... Nobody selling braze-ons, or lugs & tubing [I'm thinking more & more about trying to braze my own frame] by the looks of it.

Best way to get tubing seems to buy a gate-sized old road bike and hacksaw through the tubes...

Does anyone know any good sources?

Thanks.