Author Archives: David Kirk

Stop me if I’ve already told you this story………..

When I started this blog in 2009 it was my first and given that I had saved up a lot of things to say…..but over the past year or so I’ve felt like I had less to say here and that this space was being neglected. In some ways I feel like I still have …
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Pearl Clear.

I can tell you that shooting photos of a white bike is hard………..and that pales to making a white bike ‘pop’ when you paint it. In this case the owner wanted subtle and ‘pop’ and the pearl clear really makes it happen. I did my best to show the color in these photos but frankly …
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What’s old is new again.

This is a JK Special X that I built for a well known industry guy and I’m excited for him to get it built up and on the road. He wanted to pay some homage to the days when I built the team bikes for the Coors Light team back in the early 1990’s at …
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The Cobbler’s Shoes.

For some reason framebuilders often ride the most beat up stuff that looks like hell. Well this bike was that way until just days ago when Joe Bell took my paint scheme and made it come true in real life – thanks JB! Dave

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Behind the Curtain.

I’ve been very busy these past weeks making the donuts as I like to say…………in other words I’m chained to the bench making bikes. In this case i’m not really showing off the bikes because they are a surprise to a certain degree being the ten 10th Anniversary bikes. The bikes are coming along very …
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