Huggacast 82: Welding Ti

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Max does the final welding at Davidson Bicycles. I talked him into welding some eyelets onto my ti road bike, thereby allowing me to run a rear rack and fender on my rain bike. The video clip might imply that the process was faster than it was in reality, and setting up is tedious. But since it was titanium, the clean up

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Max builds sweet race frames under his own label 333fab as well. He and Bernie built a ti cross bike for me this past fall - the nicest ride I’ve ever had. Oh yeah and it had rear eyelets too!

Luckily the used Litespeed frame I just bought as my new commuter had rear eyelets!

Will was tellng me Max has got some mad skills from welding at Seven. That’s your Bianchi right? Does it have enough tire clearance for fenders or are you using reach arounds? I had Davidson weld on a fender tab for me as well when I bought my Redline Ti Conquest from them. They also coldset my frame to accommodate 135mm rear dropout spacing.

Tai

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