Category Archives: Bike
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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Side Tack Seat Stays.
I post or two back I shared some photos of a Newvex lugged bike that was in process and just today I realized that I’d meant to post photos of the sidetack stays but had forgotten to – better late than never I suppose. Side tack stays in various stages from having the caps brazed …
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Smoked Out.
As some of you might know there is a very cool place on the webbernet called the Velo Salon and it’s a place where a good number of builders hang out. There is a relatively new room there called “Smoked out” and it’s a place where readers and lurkers can ask questions to the featured …
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Putzmeister Fillets.
This frameset is the one I’m proud to say won the Best Fillet Award at the 2010 NAHBS in Richmond (where is was shown sans paint) and I just got it back from being sprayed ‘putzmeister green’. Today I hung a Super Record 11 kit and sent it out the door to it’s new home. …
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