Long time no blog

So it's been a long time since I posted here but I haven't been idle on the framebuilding just lazy on the blogging. I got less enthused about the title of the blog, feeling that it might show a lack of professionalism people might see necessary for building a bike but now I'm well back into the Makeshift ethos. My latest project was to build a Worldbike. And here it is almost finished.

From Latest projects

I chopped the rear triangle off a red old red Univega MTB I had. I then fillet brazed a 35mm dia. Downtube with a cut-off brazed like a bottom bracket shell to the end. The chopped off rear triangle was the brazed to the new shell. Then I went about reinforcing the extension with whatever I could find (the blue bits in the photo) and brazed on the top bars which will hold the long wooden bench. The bike should fit three children. I plan the to add a long foot rest that can be used to carry crates of water or beer.