That's what you get when you put a 26" wheel in a frame designed for 700c's. So, herewith an optical illusion buster: the blue'un parked next to the Roberts. The blue'un is a British Eagle built from Reynolds 653 - hence user name - and is a 60cm frame. The Roberts is a 58cm. No, I'm not excessively tall, a shade over 6' so no hobbit either. The blue'un was last seen on these pages as a Fully Loaded Tourer. It had been languishing part-stripped in the shed since I built up the Roberts.
N+1 is a bitsa because it's got bitsa this and bitsa that. The SAB frame cost 75 quid, the forks are Gazelle. The wheels are my old light but strong sprints with tubs. The sti shifters and bars came from a second-hand bin. In what could prove to be mistake, it's got a 10 speed screw-on freewheel from SJS, but at only 5mm wider than the 7 speed that it replaces, I'm hoping the extra distance from the inboard bearings doesn't lead to a snapped axle anytime soon.
STOP PRESS: In news just in,
n+1 is said to be coming back to me
mañana. Got to hope that's mañana in it's literal sense of 'the day after today' and not in the more frequently used 'sometime in the future, but not today'.