Hello all,
Ages ago, 2011 I had posted up on this forum about my sad broken Yo eddy frame woes with an ask for some advice. See here...
http://www.fatcogs.com/forum/showthread.php?p=14668#post14668
Wow- Time flies!!!
Here is an update, a happy one at that, is here.
My friend who was going to mitre the downtube and weld it in place for me was going through some tough times and I ended up getting the frame and tube back to do myself. By this time I had become an OK tig welder having done a fair bit of alloy welding and bit of steel welding in the fabricating of my latest Viva engine swap (see sig..)
However I was by no means and expert and I knew the welds would not be that pretty, but they would be strong. So bugger it I thought- I'll have a go myself! It turned out ok too
Now this took place back in Sept 2013 in my little shed next to the housetruck when we lived at a holiday park. We have now since bought, cleared and worked an 12 acre block of land and while that was going on the frame just got moved about collecting dust. It sat on the wall of our new workshop where I took this photo last year.. ( Sadly the Yeti FRO isn't mine. It belongs to a friend who was visiting.. so lush a bike!)
Hannah pinched the White bros forks for her Broeddy and my '90 Yo finally went through its third BB so it too was up on blocks. My Turner Flux I had bought to 'replace' the Yo was a great ride but had gone through two sets of bushes and was cracking at the seat tube brace. Plus it was 'complicated' fun compared to a sweet steel hardtail. My Genesis Croix de fer was getting a lot more of a hammering because it was closer to the ride I wanted.
Then we booked to ride the Heaphy track and I needed a geared bike with rack mounts. I could have dusted off the 1990 Bontrager I had bought in the UK to ride through the Himalayas but I actually saw this as a good shift kick up the bum to finally clean, paint and reassemble my old love. So I did just that.
The paint job is a quick rattle can job and I used some old spare stickers I had my cousin make left over from when I restored the '90 Yo back in 1998. It will do for now until later on when I get a proper two pack paint job. I had recently bought some colour matched spray cans for my Viva HB Estate I'm currently resurrecting. I like the colour and once on the frame it really looked the part.
Photos of the doing...
Photos of the done..
Finished bike..
That ever so practical disc rear end..
After all the rush to get it finished my knee played up whilst bending awkwardly whilst cutting a cat flap hole in a wall on our truck of all things! :roll: So rather than risk further injury we postponed the ride for a few weeks. I'll post back and let you know how we get on. We did go out the other day for a gentle ride, Hannah on her Broeddy and me on this. Boy was it fantastic to ride again. Most of my lats few months riding has been on my freshly repaired '90 Yo singlespeed (explains knee woes then..) and this bike is just basically a much smoother better braked version. It feels way way nicer to ride than my full sus. Why I cant explain. Just a nicer steering more nimble feeling chassis. That simple good steel feel. I'm stoked to have it back!
Alex
Ages ago, 2011 I had posted up on this forum about my sad broken Yo eddy frame woes with an ask for some advice. See here...
http://www.fatcogs.com/forum/showthread.php?p=14668#post14668
Wow- Time flies!!!
Here is an update, a happy one at that, is here.
My friend who was going to mitre the downtube and weld it in place for me was going through some tough times and I ended up getting the frame and tube back to do myself. By this time I had become an OK tig welder having done a fair bit of alloy welding and bit of steel welding in the fabricating of my latest Viva engine swap (see sig..)
However I was by no means and expert and I knew the welds would not be that pretty, but they would be strong. So bugger it I thought- I'll have a go myself! It turned out ok too
![](http://s25.postimg.org/rc60vct67/P1080866.jpg)
![](http://s25.postimg.org/ojctbbstr/P1080869.jpg)
![](http://s25.postimg.org/b4zqfam5r/P1080927.jpg)
Now this took place back in Sept 2013 in my little shed next to the housetruck when we lived at a holiday park. We have now since bought, cleared and worked an 12 acre block of land and while that was going on the frame just got moved about collecting dust. It sat on the wall of our new workshop where I took this photo last year.. ( Sadly the Yeti FRO isn't mine. It belongs to a friend who was visiting.. so lush a bike!)
![](http://s25.postimg.org/u6drmjkq7/11391504_983273881703365_6758774632225532353_n.jpg)
Hannah pinched the White bros forks for her Broeddy and my '90 Yo finally went through its third BB so it too was up on blocks. My Turner Flux I had bought to 'replace' the Yo was a great ride but had gone through two sets of bushes and was cracking at the seat tube brace. Plus it was 'complicated' fun compared to a sweet steel hardtail. My Genesis Croix de fer was getting a lot more of a hammering because it was closer to the ride I wanted.
Then we booked to ride the Heaphy track and I needed a geared bike with rack mounts. I could have dusted off the 1990 Bontrager I had bought in the UK to ride through the Himalayas but I actually saw this as a good shift kick up the bum to finally clean, paint and reassemble my old love. So I did just that.
The paint job is a quick rattle can job and I used some old spare stickers I had my cousin make left over from when I restored the '90 Yo back in 1998. It will do for now until later on when I get a proper two pack paint job. I had recently bought some colour matched spray cans for my Viva HB Estate I'm currently resurrecting. I like the colour and once on the frame it really looked the part.
Photos of the doing...
![](http://s25.postimg.org/c2ar1wn1r/P1100789.jpg)
Photos of the done..
![](http://s25.postimg.org/c8jur96sv/20160511_101024.jpg)
![](http://s25.postimg.org/ylrle27qn/20160511_101109.jpg)
Finished bike..
![](http://s25.postimg.org/3ve5wl7lb/20160512_210931.jpg)
![](http://s25.postimg.org/etpferw6n/20160512_210538.jpg)
That ever so practical disc rear end..
![](http://s25.postimg.org/naoxpp0vj/20160512_211200.jpg)
After all the rush to get it finished my knee played up whilst bending awkwardly whilst cutting a cat flap hole in a wall on our truck of all things! :roll: So rather than risk further injury we postponed the ride for a few weeks. I'll post back and let you know how we get on. We did go out the other day for a gentle ride, Hannah on her Broeddy and me on this. Boy was it fantastic to ride again. Most of my lats few months riding has been on my freshly repaired '90 Yo singlespeed (explains knee woes then..) and this bike is just basically a much smoother better braked version. It feels way way nicer to ride than my full sus. Why I cant explain. Just a nicer steering more nimble feeling chassis. That simple good steel feel. I'm stoked to have it back!
Alex