S&S coupler conversion

S&S couplers were fitted to this frame.....now it can be packed up in the small S&S bag for airtravel without excess-baggage charges. These couplers are simply beautiful and work a treat.

They cannot be noticed when riding, and they actually stiffen and strengthen a frame, since they are affectively a stronger stiffer section of frame tube. They are positioned where frames typically don't fail, so are sound. A section must be cut out of each tube and there's nothing like hack-sawing into a perfectly good frame to remind me just how amazing thin-wall steel frame tubes are....only a few strokes of the blade and you're through!

Re-assembled in the frame jig and given some careful silver-soldering, this frame is solid once again and ready for a new finish.

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