20th Anniversary.
This month marks a bit of a milestone in my framebuilding career as it’s been 20 years since I started working as a professional framebuilder. It was late October in 1989 that I went to work with Ben Serotta in Greenfield Center N.Y. and I’ve been building ever since. When I sat down to think …
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Where are all the bikes?
I posted a few photos on a cycling forum the other day and got a question from someone asking “where are all the bikes?”. This is not the first time this has been asked and it’s understandable. If you see photos of my shop there are only a few bikes, typically Karin’s and mine, hanging …
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Step by step.
I’m working on a JK Special for a Gentleman back east and I thought it might be fun for you to see a single lugged joint at each of it’s major steps. I’ve chosen to feature the headtube/downtube lug and I think the photos give a good idea of what is happening. The first photo …
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JKS for Belgium
This JK Special is heading off to what seems to me to be the home of great cycle racing – Belgium. I love the spring classic road races with the wind , cold rain, narrow cobbled roads and super steep short power climbs. I can never get enough of watching the hard men of the …
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7 days, 6 nights, 4 states, 3 National Parks, and 1930.5 miles.
It’s Thursday morning as I write and Karin and I got home from our trip yesterday afternoon and what  wonderful vacation it was. We originally intended to head north into Canada but at the last moment realized they changed the rules about crossing the border into Canada and I didn’t have a passport. So at …
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