My touring bike is all hand brazed. It's done a lot of hard miles. I did some work on it the last few days
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I have some pretty nice stainless steel racks on it, 30 year guarantee outta Germany. But the stays are aluminium and I snapped one of the eyelets, it hot bent around a bit in my travels. I don't like the one size fits all set up, so I made my own
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Stainless steel capillary tube and flat stock. Part of making new ones was that I switched my brake set up to V brakes and I now use two sets of brake levers on the bars, so I have to use a ratio corrector at the brake end.
The kink is to clear that
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Came out very nice. I used sil flow 55% silver brazing rod

Got a few other small jobs on it, a few repairs on old parts. Replacing stripped out threads in the derailleur, I stripped them out in the Atacama desert and Rand a nut and bolt through it, which means it has to be set in the perfect position otherwise you don't get all the gears, and I stripped that bolt last week haha. New shift levers to some that have a built in tag to adjust the, current ones I have to stop and find a coil every 600km. Fixed my bell mount. It was peened over on a spacer, that got torn out on a plane and re peened and then return out on the flight home.... I remade that with some titanium tube and bolt.

Did some more work to the wife's bike too. Lower granny gear on the crank, have a good sealed bearing bottom bracket to swap out the cartridge style one with and I have some cantilever brake posts to braze on. It was 27" now running 700c tyres and so I'm using some long reach rim brakes from the late 70s on it. They work, but don't look good. And my old canti set up will be much better


My frame is a 79 shogun 500. It was built from factory as a touring bike. It had some ok bits on it, but I sold most of that off and fully rebuilt it. The frame, cranks and seat post are original. I build my own wheels for them. Mine has tens of thousands of kilometres on it now, u have rebuilt it a couple of times to