My rigid, lugged 4130 street bike...

[Ryan]

Yeoww! My commuter for getting to and from uni...total cost to set this baby up; $55

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[ELX]

I cunno bout the bikes. But that concrete thing in the beckground of the first pic look slik eit would be fun to ride...Is that a stock AC Bar/Grip?? Nice commuter.

 

[lotec]

how do you plan to start up on that with it in that gear or do you live in the steepest hill in australia and go down it to uni? :lol: that rear derallier looks really.......... wierd nice bike, but its nothing on my huffy

 

[Tomas]

PIMP

 

[singlespeeder]

That is way sexy...what brand frame is that btw?

 

[CHEWY]

Risers on a roadie! that would be awesome fun!
What do you mean by "lugged"?

 

[Woodsie]

Get some second hand drop bars and a brake lever for 10 bucks and you've got a race bike.

 

[dunk]

What do you mean by "lugged"?

It's the type of construction, the tubes are slid into "sockets" or lugs at the head tube, bottom bracket and junction of seat and top tube, and brazed.

Some old school lugs are beautiful works of hand filing and sawing. There was a frame builder in Sydney named Fred Morgan whose bikes look like works of art. As far as I know the only charge for one of his frames was 20kg of coffee, and you had to ride 10000 km with him. He would only offer to make you a frame, you could not ask him for one. My mate had one, I'd die for one today.

 

[CHEWY]

What do you mean by "lugged"?

It's the type of construction, the tubes are slid into "sockets" or lugs at the head tube, bottom bracket and junction of seat and top tube, and brazed.

Some old school lugs are beautiful works of hand filing and sawing. There was a frame builder in Sydney named Fred Morgan whose bikes look like works of art. As far as I know the only charge for one of his frames was 20kg of coffee, and you had to ride 10000 km with him. He would only offer to make you a frame, you could not ask him for one. My mate had one, I'd die for one today.

Ahhhh! Of course! My old mans roadie is made in that way.
Whats the point of using lugs building a frame? I couldnt imagine it being any lighter than just braze welding the tubes together...

 

[dunk]

Stronger and stiffer, I'm not an expert on welding, but I don't think brazing is actually strong enough on its own to join tubes, you need the lugs, a firm fit, and the brazing to provide a structural joint.

 

[Jordy]

its probably stronger then the welding they would've had back then

 

[Rik]

All I can say about that bike can be summed up in one smiley:

 

[Fat_Ride]

$55?????
Holy shit... looks like you got it from council collection!!!

 

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:shock:

 

[neko]

At least you don't have to wory about it being stoled