My personal bikes get the short end of the stick all too often, sure I’ll throw something nice for myself in when I am placing a parts order for a customer’s bike once in a while, but I’ll admit it, I dig the bottom of my spare parts bin when piecing together a bike for myself. Such is the case to the nth degree in the example below, in this case its OK though, cause I built this one up for some hardscrabble hard court bike polo and pretty matching parts wouldn’t last long anyway.
I had this experimental short rear ended/variable top tube length I built using a Supertherm BMX Tubeset, a pinchbolt eccentric, a sectional seat tube with a variable effective angle, and a 2 piece chainstay yolk collecting rust in the rafters for about a year. Glad I finally revived it,the front end is way slacked out with the big front wheel but it is impossible to get into too much trouble with the 400mm chain stays. sometimes a bike that handles entirely different is a lot of fun.
