Originally Posted by cudak888

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.



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