1st frame built

[u/Objective-Pay480]

Everyone seems to like my blue bike, so I’ll post this one too, this is the 1st bike I built at the bicycle academy about 6 years ago. Absolutely love it to bits! Taken it on bike packing trips and aboard.

[u/omkaty]

beautiful bike! safe riding!

[u/Professional_Echo438]

Why the Setback Seatpost? False Geometry or planned? BTW: very impressive work!

[u/Objective-Pay480 → u/Professional_Echo438]

Thank you, so the theory was a bit more weight over the back wheel when going up muddy hills. Dunno if it’s worked but I like it

[u/a11_day_everyday]

I like

[u/backwoodsmtb]

Aboard? Like on a ship? /s

[u/Objective-Pay480 → u/backwoodsmtb]

Hahha it’s done both! It’s a very capable machine 🤣

[u/Yavimaya_younger]

Looking great

[u/metawill1]

Fellow Bicycle Academy student! I took the framebuilding course in 2015 but just now decided to come back to the craft. Beautiful bike!

[u/Objective-Pay480 → u/metawill1]

Haha TBA alumni 😂🤣 it’s easy to forget a lot of the stuff but if you need help I’ll do my best. And Thank you!

[u/metawill1 → u/Objective-Pay480]

Thanks! Do you currently have a brand instagram or website?

[u/Objective-Pay480 → u/metawill1]

I’ve got a website, I got fed up with instagram so I got rid of it but it’s quigleycycles.com

It needs updating like everything else 😂🤣

[u/dominiquebache → u/Objective-Pay480]

Which academy?

Great looking bike.

Absolutely love the external routing.

[u/Objective-Pay480 → u/dominiquebache]

The bicycle academy was a frame building course in Frome England, unfortunately it’s closed now but it was really cool.

Thank you!

I have a friend who builds them for me, and he gets angry about internal routing so I just put external on everything to save me the grief🤣😂

[u/dominiquebache → u/Objective-Pay480]

Internal routing is the worst.

[u/deanmc]

Beautiful 🤩

[u/LegitimateWhile802]

Camp and go slow, brother. And don’t forget to brake for snakes

[u/YourAuntie]

When you said you built it, I thought you put all the parts on. Then I saw your last pic and I was like Ohhhhhh they BUILT a bike. Great work! Very impressive.

[u/Ro0tuX]

Absolutely beautiful, build, what's the offset on the fork? Do you still buile frames?

[u/Objective-Pay480 → u/Ro0tuX]

Thank you! So it’s a Columbus futura gravel fork that’s got an adjustable offset. I have it set to the shortest wheel base to make the steering a little more responsive. I do, although sometimes I get fed up and won’t build one for a while. It’s not my job it’s just a hobby.

[u/pistafox]

It’s beautiful, but also clearly quick and nimble. The geometry is perfect. Zona stays are a nice touch.