Fresh from paint
Keith laid down a stunning paint job on this frameset. A straight up road machine for a good pal.. Thanks, Steve! More photos of the build HERE.
Customer Queue added to left column
Hi Folks,I brought back my customer queue update section to the blog. It’s on the left under the “Smoked Out” link list. I just dumped the initials in there for the moment, but I will be adding details and creating links to each customer’s frame gallery on Photobucket. At the moment, I’m working on a bunch of frame specifications and working hard to get framesets off to Keith for paint.…
Busy week
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…
Chainring fetish
And these are feeding my addiction. Time to test. 38/44 Campy CT 36/42 SRAM
Methodology
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…
Ready for some Florida cyclocross action
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!
Cyclocross chainring project moving along
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…
Di2 meet Max…bridging the generation gap
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.…
Knee deep in Max
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…