Deceptively Large Bike Frame

A friend of mine is getting his second Budd Bike Works Frame, he is 6’5″ Tall with a 38″ Inseam & an aggressive rider.  He had a lot of input on his frame’s design as an experienced rider who has had difficulty with frame fit and failures.  He was a little self conscious about the huge head and seat tube he ends up with on the 68cm road frames that would fit him so a longer fork and sloping top tube was used for his disc braked cyclo-cross, BBW#22.  Bike should be done at the end of the week and off to paint.  You really can’t tell how big it is until you pick it up or put it next to another bike.  Here are links to some bad pictures of it, it should be pretty good when its finished with some stainless bits shined up on the frame and the Igleheart fork just completed.  Ben at Revolution Bikes in JP is lacing up red Hope hubs to DT 1.1 Rims for it.  I just need to finish up the seat stays.

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About mbudd

My name is Matt Budd. I am an athlete, engineer, and citizen of Massachusetts. I can build you a bike that will meet your functional expectation of it whatever that may be but I can't do it for free.
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