There is an upside, and a downside to this:
Upside: Positioning the bases of the tube this way places the rear tube further back, so the angle needed on the rear tube to go around the front brake line (13° in the book) is smaller, and I just bent the tube manually. No need to cut and re-weld as on the book's design.
2015-04-26_11-48-09 by
Voucht71, sur Flickr
Downside: Positioning the bases of the tube this way places them further away from each other, so, in the same way as the rear tube is further to the back, the front tube is further to the front than with the book's design. The consequence of this is that the angle you have to tighten the ball joint's nut that old the lower plate of the wing stay WS1 (space between the front tube and the rim) is much smaller. So it is long and difficult to screw the nut on, especially wit my torque wrench which is quite thick.
But the wing stays are now very steady, they don't vibrate at all. So far (about 2000km), they don't show any sign of fatigue.
2015-04-25_12-09-28 by
Voucht71, sur Flickr
Again, there are a lot of pictures on my blog:
http://vouchtroadster.blogspot.se/20...avant-new.html
or my flickr gallery:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/994983...57660114808026
Hope that will help
