Category Archives: Process

Well winter arrived a bit later than is normal but it hit in a big way yesterday. We got about 8″ of heavy wet snow and it made the mountains prettier than you can image. I took the mountain photo from the office window and yes the sky really is that blue. There was also …
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This frameset was built for a gentleman from California and is on it’s way to Joe Bell as I type. It’s getting a candy red and pearl while paint job which I think will look just right. I look forward to getting it back and then off to it’s owner. Thanks for looking. Dave

My policy is that I only do work on my own brand. This may sound snobby but one just never knows what is going on inside a frame when you haven’t built it with your own two hands. But rules are meant to be broken as they say. Recently I had a guy call me …
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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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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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