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randonneur/audax/commuter/etc bicycle
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2
x 10 V
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mudguards
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dual
headlights with Son hub
dynamo
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fillet-brazed
Columbus/Reynolds frame
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10.32
kgs ex pedals
On-One
Midge bar
2 x 10
V downtube shifters (indexed!)
M-gineering
headbadge
matching
handmade stem
57mm
reach brakes with sufficient clearance for a decent tyre and
mudguards
Horizontal
dropouts,
so you could do a fixed or hubgear winter project
Frames
for Rohloff hubs are also popular
Rear
dropout with OEM adapter
bottom
bracket excentric to tension the chain
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The
shifter will not fit a dropbar, the aerobars were a
hindrance too, so the shifter has it's own stub
SRM
bike. Randonneur with Son
dynamo, Rohloff hub and
Magura hs66 brakes. The carrier is adapted
to take the Burley trailer
S&S
coupling: unscrew the large nut (there is
another one in the toptube) to split the frame in two halves
travelbike
with
S&S couplers and a (mainly) Deore groupset (ca 13 kg)
Quick
disconnect to undo the brakecable without tools for
splitting the frame
Singlespeed
frame. Based on the geometry of the Inbred, but with a
much taller headtube to accommodate the taller Dutchmen
without ugly spacers. And with an unicrown fork and shot-in
seatstays, the frame looks a bit more rounded
Columbus
Max racing frame: A very early M-gineering (from '92!)
refurbished for a new lease of life
Same frame, but now with a replaced downtube and new paint.
(tube was dented with a stone launched with a cyclomower)
Luxuriuos touring bike, with 853 frame, Rohloff, Son and
Magura's, Cane Creek suspension post, Rotor crankset, double
legged standard, hot and cold running water....
A normal touring bike with 853 frameset, XT parts and Tubus
carriers. And a SON hub dynamo. Brakes are Frogleg canti's
with fat Tektro brakelevers and extra levers on the bars.
The bike runs nicely on 40 mm Schwalbes, but there is room
for extra air
No bike is 'completely' normal here: Dura-Ace 9speed levers
on a custom stem extension
Another touring bike, with the ubiquitous Son, Rohloff and
Magura's. But now with Nitto bars and rack, a TA crankset,
Hope headset, pump behind the seattube and Dlumotec and E6bz
headlights. Frame is 853 with excenter and OEM1 Rohloff
dropout.
The LH SPD pedal is shimmed 5mm to compensate for a slight
legl enght discrepancy
paint protected from rubbing cables
A custom
bracket for the headlight fits beneath the Magura mounting
Another SRM bike with Son, Rohloff en HS66
M-Gineering discovers straight bars;) And no SON or Magura in
sight. But there is still a Rohloff.
Other bits are mostly Deore combined with steel tubular racks.
Sliding dropouts to tension the chain and a Rohloff
OEM1 torqueplate to mount the axle securely
Can you spot the differences? This one is slightly bigger
Rohloff, shifter on a pedestal, Nitto rack, bar and
seatpost, Son hub dynamo and 57mm brakes
Special mounting for the rear carrier
Rohloff shifter on a pedstal with room for a
computer
Singlespeed
for grand tours: sneaky gearhanger, braze-ons for racks fore
and aft and three bottlecages. Frame doesn't look very big on
it's own., but it is designed for a full 2.0m person
fully loaded
Fillet brazed 'sunday bike' with Pacenti
forkcrown
With a matching ''bi-laminate' stem with the same
theme
Built up bike with moustache bar
Fork detail
Handmade bi-laminate forkcrown
Edelux, Steelflex and M(-gineering)
28 speed Rohloff. With a front changer and 3t difference you
can halve the gearjumps
thicker platformpedal
EHBE
For the EHBE handbuilt show I had the
randonneur demo (first on the page) copper plated. Now I
have to polish it, instead of cleaning it with emerycloth.
The bartape started out white, and was painted in a
matching colour
Maybe not a very practical finish, but it sure got noted.
The other bike on show was usually ignored.
After the show there were loads of dirty fingermarks here!
The works
Showtime.
Sometimes you have to do something outrageous, and
this is outrageous according to M-gineering!
It is an
M-gineering, but a funny one: Polished stainless lugs
(won't do to many of those) instead of fillet brazed, and
a three colour paintjob with decals buried under loads of
clear
If you
know where to look there is still some filletbrazing, but
the bilaminate makes it hard to see
Again the
bracketshell with S&S couplers, a 'fiftyseven'
transfer and 'handgemaakt in Kiel Windeweer'
chainstay bridge with cutout for the mudguard
Bilaminate stem with hinged clamp: you can remove
the bar without unwrapping the leather Toshi bartape
Stainless
M-gineering M headbadge on a background of House of
Kolor candy. The lugs started out as Sachs, but the
shorelines are modified, as they started out far to
exuberant for my liking. I strived for subdued elegance. And I think it
worked, because side by side everbody jumped on the
copperplated bike (above) first ;)
Brake bridge
for the 57mm brake, just visible the 30mm Grand bois
Cypres tyres
The lot
Build is 10 sp Ultegra, with a super nice Octalink Suntour
crankset, my last Ti Flite saddle, Nitto bars, Ti King
cages and Tektro brakes. The 28R/ 24Fhubs I wanted are
still in the post, this is a wednesday night wheelbuild
with lots of spare holes in the flanges ;)!
Single speed on DA hub
Matching
rack
Side
view
Tiny MTB, with Rohloff hub and Firmtech brakes
Protrusion on the inside for the torque-arm (oem2) of the
Rohloff hub
maiden run
Bi-laminated frame from a mix of Columbus tubing and Reynolds
imperial forkblades, brazed on Mafac brakes, Simplex
derailleurs, Sondelux dynamo and lot of other nice things
seat cluster
Philips bakelite rear light from the thirties on a Velo-Orange
mudguard
Sugino cranks, 48-33 TA chainrings and a 14-26 cassette. Nitto
R cages and Simplex LJ (very little in common with the Delrin
disasters) derailleurs. Rearhub is a White, rim Velo Orange,
DT revolution spokes and the 30mm tyre is by Grand Bois (of
course! )
29-er with narrow rearend, Pauls dropouts and V-brakes
Off road tourer with custom rack, Magura disks and fork, long
Custom cranks with halfstep.
Frame with S&S couplers, Rohloff hub and Split-ends
Rohloff shifter bars. This is a 'burning the midnight oil'
picture, not doing the bike justice: "She rides great!
Geometry is spot-on, lively handling but stable, feels licht
and nimble, loads of light in the dark without noticing te
hub. And a lot of subtle details, great to own such a
masterpiece"
29-er
no-file fillets
low step
Ready for the first testride. Son SL with Edelux, Frontrack
(demontable) for the VO barbag, White pedals and BG toeclips,
S&S couplers, Rohloff: both classic and modern
VO mudguards, Hetre's, Diacompe centerpulles, Pacenti rims,
Removable cablestop for the Rohloff
Rack made to measure, will fold flat for transport
All the good bits, S&S, Rohloff, White..
Another 650B on Hetres, bilam frame, unicrown fork, SL dynamo
and Mafac competitions. 2x10 (9) drivetrain
And again, Rohloff, S&S, Son . But now in dark green
metallic and with 559 rims
Back to 650B again, but now with 3 x10 derailleur gears.
Diskbrakes and Compass tyres, 12.6 kgs
CNC'd dropouts with disc mount, 12-36 cassette on the last of
the proper XTR hubs and shiny BB7's
A new M-gineering designed cable separator , to enable the
cables to stay with the front half of the S&S coupled frame.
Just slide out the cable stop after detaching the stock Rohloff
cable QR's
'Basic' randonneur with 3x10 Shimano driveline with downtube
shifters, Stainless racks, and 40mm Big Ben's (No, that;'s
not the tower in the background, this is the lighthouse in
Enkhuizen)
All bells & whistles: Integrated (folding) rack, SL
lights with a charger in the headtube, S&S,
Rohloff, Grand Bois brakes, Herse chainset
Sort of Black&White picture, but the Ivory white is more
like German Taxi yellow. Standard no-frills frame for
Rohloff gears
And as a complete bike...
Look Mum!: Indeed no Son lights, no tractor tyres
(Pasela's), no heavy-duty ringlock, kickstand or leather
saddle
Frame with
Reynolds 921 stainless steel, fat tyres and Di2
Disk brakes, so you can get creative with the mudguard
bridge
With stainless you either have to weld or silver braze it.
I've done a black&white connection. The doubler is
brazed on with silver, and the tube is then fillet-brazed in
the ordinary way. This is a huge headtube, with ZS44/EC44
bearings and a tapered steerer
Stainless dropout from Henry James: There's a few hours here
with files and emery cloth to clean up the complex shape of
the raw casting
A m-gineering
E(dith)-bike: 650B wheels, rack, lights and 3 x 10/BB7 groupset
Rando bike with OS Columbus tubing and a Crescendo stainless
lugset. Custom made front rack and a French styled twin
plate crown. Mafac GT brakes
Mafac GT with quick release
welded on lug sockets
John Williams tribute
And now for something completely different. Quite a
challenge to build this with the tooling I had, but it
turned out nice. It rides great and handles fine, and
getting on or off isn't that difficult. Great fun, both in
the city or off the beaten track (mind those branches
though)
light (11.5kgs) randonneur with Ritchey carbon fok, BBsl7 disks,
2 x 10 Ultegra driveline mudguuards and kickstand
Kickstand, disk and carrier sharing space
Mudguard stays also necessitate some creative bending
Upgrade: a rack built to fit an existing fork, and to accomodate
a Berthoud bag. The bag is fixed with two sliders by Grand Bois
Some more Berthoud (saddle) . And a very cheerful yellow
Off-road tourer, no nonsense build wth 26" wheels, 3 x 10 &
disks
Rando with a familiar paint scheme. 3 x 11 with downtube
shifters (indexed) and V-brakes
Reworked Pacenti crown
Randonneuring/tourer for max 60mm wide tyres (622 rimsize).
Tyres are very plush Compass, the other bits came from an older
bike . They still worked fine, so why change.
VTR (Velo tous les
routes)
Yep you guessed it, these two went to the painters in the same
batch, but this one is way more fancy. Rando with 650B
wheels, bilam frame with Columbus tubing, Grand Bois
centerpulls, Son SL (plugless) hubdynamo, Nitto bar & stem,
2 x 10 Shimnao Ultegra , White rearhub, Sugino Mighty cranks.
Mudguards and bag are by Berthoud
Seatcluster with semi shot in stays. Also visible the coax plug
for the rearlight and the joint in the mudguard
mudguard stays with captive bolts (nothing to lose)
Upside down Edelux2 with conceiled wiring