I truly believe things happen for a reason. Faith, religion, call it what you will. But it took an act of God to push my landlord to make a move. Well, not quite an act of God. More like “It took God making the roof leak for us to start looking for a new place”. Most of you know that I have been sharing space with Toby at Hot Tubes…
It’s Classics time. Bill wanted a special paint job for his new cobble gobbling monster to coincide with this special time of year. Thank you for your order, Bill. It was fantastic working with you!
Bill came to me looking for a machine that could tackle roads, dirt roads, cobbles, pot holes, and almost anything else that crossed his path. He wanted to use 28 mm tires with short reach Record calipers. The fork length and seat stay bridge height were set to their maximum so the pads were at the near-bottom of the slots. Chainstay length was stretched a bit and the seat tube…
I have added a new feature to the side bar of my blog. I have added all current customer orders and I will be updating these with progress and timing. The updates will be labeled as: Specification development – currently working with customer on final frameset and position specsSpecifications complete – specs complete and frameset is ready for fabricationTube set in process – tubes are being machined and preppedTube set…
Yikes, It’s been awhile. We left off in the last installment with all of the tubes coped and mocked up in the fixture. There is still some work to do before we tack the frame though. One thing I try to do before tacking the frame is braze on as many..errr…braze-ons as possible. Why? Well, when you heat things, they expand. Now, picture a nicely made frame. It’s all aligned…