Category Archives: News
This one goes to Eleven
Like I wrote a few days back I got Irv’s bike back from JB and was getting ready to hang a Super Record Eleven speed kit on it. Well I got it done the other day just in time to take a few photos of it before getting it boxed and on it’s way to …
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Before, during, after, and done.
I’m in the middle of building a JKS for Andy and thought I’d show you a progression of how a single lugged joint moves down the line. The first photo shows the lug all covered in yummy flux and ready to be tacked. The tubes and lugs are being held by the jig in the …
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JKS Terraplane
This went out the door to JB for paint the other day and I thought you might like to see it. Enjoy the Tour! Dave
Racing
With it being Tour De France time I find myself watching lots of very good racing on TV and thinking of race bikes and how they are used. Most road bikes are race bikes designed to be ridden hard and fast yet most owners of these bikes will never race them. This is of course …
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Boys will be boys
I was having a conversation the other day with a fellow framebuilder and the conversation turned, as it often does, to some of the stupid stuff that happens in a production frame shop. Whenever you get a group of 20 to 40 year old boys together for long hours silly stuff seems to happen. Our …
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