Originally Posted by
OneHumanPower
My brother crashed one of those Twenties when the frame folded while he was riding it BITD!
I've had the pleasure (not) of being punted off the brown one while stopped. Crankset bent and the chainguard took a beating, but I've replaced them since. Can't recall if it was @
USAZorro or @
BFisher who had the right 44t Raleigh crankset.
Originally Posted by
Charliekeet
Oh my gosh, that Bottechia Leo really speaks to me!! This is 650b? How wide are those tires?
I'm building it as 650B; those are Soma Grand Randonneur 42's. Don't let the look fool you though; that's a road bike at its heart. The huge BB drop and slacker seattube might make it look otherwise, but I'd guess that's just Bottecchia coming out of the early 1950's geometries into what we know now from the '60s and '70s.
This is what she would have looked like BITD:
This is from the last session of when I took beauty pics of it. It looks completely wrong without hammered Honjos on it.
-Kurt