Category Archives: For Fun

Start your Seven.

As anyone who stops by here often will know the only thing that I like as much as bikes are Lotus cars and I’m lucky enough to own one. Before I got my current Louts Elise I owned a Lotus Seven clone made by Birkin in South Africa. It was a fantastic little car that …
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I’ve seen the future and the future is now.

Over the years I’m been very lucky to have been able to have work with most every frame material out there and when I started my business I decided that for me steel was the best material to use. I love the way it rides and that it has such wonderful fatigue properties so it …
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Forks and a past life.

I’m most of the way through a JKS build and I a bit hung up waiting for tubes to finish the bike. So I’ve been doing some office work and ran across some very old stuff in a box in the closet. I have a box full of race numbers that are a small portion …
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The show is over.

The show is over and frankly I’m fine with that. It’s so much work spread over such a long period of time that it becomes all one can think about at times. I have work to do at the bench and a bike to assemble but before I move off the topic I thought I’d …
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Christmas, Cats, Crystals, and Cycles.

I’ve enjoyed my short Christmas break with Karin and this afternoon I got back into the shop. One of my favorite things about Christmas is watching the cats play in the empty boxes and piles of wrapping paper. I never get tired of that and neither do they. The photo of the buck was taken …
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