Broken bike, broken thumb update

June 2, 2010

Update on the repaired-renewed frame project

It's not a project-project, but over the years we've collected crashed frames (usually owner's insurance compensated them) with the good intent to fixemup one day, we've been doing that. Sometimes we've taken additionl liberties--adding a second top tube, or moving a bridge and increasing clearance and changing the brake requirement. Sometimes, we just replaced the tube that got whacked.

Every frame has its story, and we don't have a logbook, and the frame's history is an unimportant time sink, while it's current state is all that matters and is available.

We'll call these RenoVelo frames, and it has nothing to do with Nevada. Had that thought even come up, we'd have come up with another name, but it didn't, so RenoVelo it is (all short vowel sounds).

The decals will be here in one week, and then we'll send the first of the RVs to the painter, and it may take 6 weeks. We'll likely paint them one color with no cream details, but under the simple paint will be super frames. Most frame prices will be btw $800 and $1100, but expect a few exceptions.


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