General: At Yamaguchi!

Just a fun fact:
Before 3Rensho was 3Rensho, it was called Cyclone. Here's an original cyclone:





Due to copyright issues, Cyclone was forced to create a new name for the brand. The owner of Cyclone asked Yamaguchi to come up with a name. Yamaguchi came up with the name 3Rensho in about 15 minutes. It represents the last three days/wins of racing in the Keirin championships. Here's some original artwork from Yamaguchi's secret stash:

Very Cool, Thanks for sharing.

Sigh, my personal favorite framebuilder. Would love to at least own one of his beautiful works of art one day. I don't think I'll ever be able to be one of these chosen few to bask in the presence of a master.

This is the CAD drawing of my frame. Yamaguchi also hand drew a centerline blueprint of my geometry. My seatstays will NOT meet in the middle of my seatube. They will go all the way to the top meeting at the seatpost clamping area. Its just the way the CAD program shows the frame:





As I said before, we have been practicing brazing for the past few days. Yamaguchi has us do these "towers." He said in Japan, if you were a shop boy for a Keirin framebuilder (which he was for awhile), you would have to demonstrate perfect "towers" (without any instruction) to the master framebuilder. If you did not you would remain a shop boy, sweeping and cleaning, but if you demonstrated perfect "towers" then you would be educated on framebuilding by the master. Here are some examples of "towers" from past students and my towers. I'm not quite there yet, but I've been making progress since Tuesday. This practice will help us with tacking and fillet brazing.








We also finished hand mitering all of our front triangle tubes except for one side on the downtube. After we finished this, Yamaguchi showed us how to tack our bottom bracket shell to our seatube:

Posted By: pateyectalli love this thread! keep it up man!

Thanks! Its much appreciated. I'm glad I could share this journey with all of you : )

This is so cool. Keep sharing please! I'm loving it.

Im loving the pictures ! I have a yamaguchi long sleeve skin suit. Do you see any of those around?

great experience! love the "portable gearing box".

Posted By: BummerThis thread is awesome!

Once you get your towers up, I'll take a 61cm track frame, triple triangle.

k-thanks

+1 LOL

Posted By: Indians44987Here he is showing us his patented triple triangle design and some problems he had with the GT frames for the US National Team:

I read somewhere else about problems with the frame but I cant find where. What did the man himself say about these issues?