Category Archives: Bike

Head tube length vs. saddle-to-bar drop?

I’ve designed more than a few bikes for riders of all types over the years and up until a few years ago I was never once asked what the head tube length of the bike would be. I’m not sure exactly what changed but now head tube length seems to be a metric that some …
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Onesto.

I started working with Reynolds 953 stainless steel tubing in 2006 when I first introduced the JK Special line of bikes which utilize a custom mix of 953 stainless, 853 Pro, and special non-stainless stays and blades made by Reynolds just for the JK Special…and over the years I’ve been asked countless times if I …
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Coors Light Serotta Pro Bike – 1991.

I was excited to see this linked on the Velo News site today. I’m proud to say that I was the lucky guy chosen to build these bikes while I was at Serotta in the early 1990’s. It’s hard to explain how exciting it was to build bikes that I knew were going to be …
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Inox.

I’ve long wanted to build a full stainless lugged road bike but it wasn’t until recently that I felt the stainless tubes available would give the ride I want my bikes to have. This changed when Reynolds started offering new stays and blades in their 953 stainless alloy that are stiff enough to give the …
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Fat Bike, Thin Air.

I posted photos of the build process of this fillet brazed Fat Kirk before paint and it’s now back from paint, built up and right where it should be – on the snow. The color is Lotus Lazer Blue, which is a pearl blue with a matte clear to give it the frosty winter look. …
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