Next

Hello NYC...The next frame will be built for AMS in New York City proper. It will be an internal hub and internal drum brakes allowing for a clean look. It will be a daily rider with some extra duty as a long distance bike. It will be lugged using Richard Sachs Nuovo Lugs and BB and Forks Crowns by Mr. ATMO. Rear Drops will be track/horizontal. This current rendering shows a larger than normal Seat Tube Angle of 79 which might need to be modified depending on how much I can stretch the lugs. Kind of excited to build this one as it is very similar to the Retro Metro I previously built. Still working out some final details on componets and tubing size but I figure by Wednesday we will be ordering some parts to get this thing going. Yeah.

Another one down

Finally finished another frame and fork. This one seemed to take forever. Sorry Greg.

Anyways, it is a pretty nice Track Bike, with nothing special except the lugs. No braze ons what so ever. Gotta love that. Simple. Built the fork and used my Marchetti bender to rake the forks, took like 10 seconds, blam... done. Perfect rake...built the forks straight, welded up straight then raked as the very last thing. Pretty cool way to do that. Frame weighs 3 pounds 10 oz

It's just around the corner.

http://www.gent-wevelgem.be/fileadmin/DOCS/parcours-gw-2010.pdf

Have I won a Blue Ribbon?

It's been awhile.

Well looks like the shop is almost setup in the new house. I hooked up the gas torch lines last night and fired up some acety and watched the black particles float around. I'm back baby. More news to come in the following days.

Great Article on LeMond

http://www.bikeradar.com/blogs/article/the-greatest-tour-of-all-by-greg-lemond-22419

Bike Show

I got invited to a First Thursday event down in the Pearl by my good friend Michael. Aug 6th at 6PM at his office Stepchange. There will be 7 builders there.

Details are at the links below

http://bikeportland.org/2009/07/30/first-thursday-event-will-feature-up-and-coming-bike-builders/

http://blog.stepchangegroup.com/2009/07/the-first-first-thursday/

Logo stickers are here

I think they look good...

Bike Porn

Finished up the front triangle on Greg's Track Bike. Things are shaping up on the rear triangle.

Happy Memorial Weekend

Well I managed to finish up for the most part my new little scooter. I put a new EPA 2009 certified 2 cycle engine on my very first bicycle frame that I built. It is a blast to ride, hits 50 mph pretty easy but at that speed there is some fear involved. I need to get a larger volume tire on it. Super fun. Running a single speed gear to get it going then you drop the clutch and away you go. I'm going to call it the EM-50 as that was the special project in the movie Stripe's and well, there you go.