Bloomer Junior Track Bike - Front Triangle Fabrication

Well, since I messed up the chainstay on David's Frame and have

to wait until Tuesday to continue, I decided to start my next project.

I don't usually do this.  I like to finish one frame before starting the

next one, but with 2 weeks off from work I want to take advantage of

the time I have available for frame building.  I am building a bike for

the youngest ridersat the Velodrome at Bloomer Park.  The youth

program has become very popular in the last couple of years and their

is a demand for small bikes for the youngest kids.  It is next to

impossible to find any track bikes this small.  Also, the smallest bikes

that we have at the Velodrome are small enough for the leg length of

these smallest riders, but the top tube length is often too long on them.

A couple of months ago I built a track bike frame for Cam and made

the top tube as short as I could without toe overlap with the front wheel.

When Cam tried out his bike for the first time we could see that the

shorter top tube length worked out great.  Dale Hughes asked me if I

could make another bike with the same dimensions to be part of the

stable of loaner bikes that the track has for riders.  I was glad to do this

and decided to plan a build over the winter.  Well, that time has come

and this is another build that I am looking very much forward to.  I

was able to get the front triangle tubes mitered tonight.  I tried some-

thing different on this one and used a curved down tube in addition

to the curved top tube.  It looked awesome in the BikeCad design

software and I think that the pictures below show that.