Fignon.
The great champion Laurent Fignon recently passed away after a long battle with cancer. I always had great admiration for him. It’s unfortunate that he may be best remembered for his ‘loss’ to Greg LeMond by 8 seconds in the tightest Tour de France in history as opposed to the two Tours that he did …
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Pegoretti.
I’m pleased to call Dario Pegoretti a friend. I get to spend time with him once a year usually and it never lasts as long as I would like. We trade an email or two and even with the language barrier one can feel the genuine warmth that comes from the man. When we do …
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Civic Duty
by guest blogger Karin Kirk Early August brings Bozeman’s biggest community celebration, the Sweet Pea Festival of the Arts. It’s three days of music, dance, arts vendors and general outdoor liveliness in a lovely park setting. It’s called the Sweet Pea Festival because it’s centered around the beautiful, fragrant and ephemeral sweet pea flowers which …
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Compare and Contrast.
No two bikes I build are the same and that certainly goes for these two. They are both steel and they are both built using fillets to allow to to use the tube sizes and angles I feel are best for the rider and beyond that they share little. The smaller bike in the foreground …
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Triple F Dropouts.
In my 20+ years of being a framebuilder there has always been one frame part that left me cold and that has been the rear dropouts. Over the years I’ve had the chance to design a few dropouts but time and budget always compromised the design. Well being on my own has allowed me to …
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