The new shop is finally feeling good. Made lots of metal chips, melted lots of silver, and burnt lots of acetylene this week. S&S Coupled road frame. Fillet brazed cyclocross frame. Another road frame headed to New Hampshire hills. A road frame destined for some serious dirt road riding. More to do…
And these are feeding my addiction. Time to test. 38/44 Campy CT 36/42 SRAM
I dig working in batches. That’s not to be confused with doing production runs where everything is the same size. These are still all unique to their future owners. But it drives me crazy doing every single step once. It completely offends my sensibilities. It also runs counter to all of the training I have received through school and my time in industry. Granted, this is not a production environment…
Yes, they have cyclocross in Florida, and it’s growing. I love seeing regions develop across the country. Maybe now that Nationals is in January, somebody in South Beach will submit a proposal to host! No offense, Madison. Anyway, this machine is Florida bound to tackle some racing. Thanks, Rafael!
Just got a couple of photos of a sample SRAM/Shimano 110 bcd 42 tooth outer after the hard anodizing and I am very excited with how they look. This is before the shifting pins and chain drop pin are added. With the hard ano on the 7075, these are going to be to tough as nails. I won’t get many repeat customers because they won’t wear out! We’re on schedule…
Picture it. A very attractive young woman dressed to the nines walking with a somewhat grizzled and tough looking older fella. A few heads might turn. Some just won’t get it. But hey, ain’t love strange? All right…enough of that. This is the first Di2 bike I’ve had the opportunity to build. Let me say that Shimano has knocked it out of the park with the full internal wiring kit.…
Columbus Max. For me, it conjures up images of the nastiest, meanest, and toughest riders in the peleton from 20 years ago and the bikes they used duking it out on the bergs and cobbles of northern Europe during my second most favorite time of the year…the spring classics. These guys put down the power and corner really hard, and Columbus came up with a set of pipes that was…
I love pearls. Growing up, I went to a ton of car and motorcycle shows. My dad is in that biz and we spent quite a few Sundays walking around looking at some incredible machines. I love seeing perfect paint jobs on big car panels. Orange peal (a type of surface roughness) and ripples pop out like a giant pimples. But perfectly flat finishes with super high gloss are just…
Kerry hit it out of the park and shipped the prototype chainrings to my hotel here in Vegas. I tore into that box in a heartbeat. My first impression was that they looked very prototype-ish, which was cool. The rings were raw and were not coated (the production rings will be hard anodized and gray, similar to Campy 11 speed rings) due to time constraints, so they had the natural…