Category Archives: Process
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 – ready for paint.
I’ve got a paint color picked and it’s off to JB’s. I’m excited to build it and get it on the snow. Dave
Kirk Fat……or Fat Kirk III.
Today was a short day at the bench as I have been neglecting deskwork but I did manage to get all the fillets buffed out. Next up comes the small fussy bits…cable routing, bottle bosses and the rear disc tab. As long as I can make a good dent in my deskwork I can reward …
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Kirk Fat II.
Kirk Fat II Today’s installment of the Kirk Fat miniseries picks up where yesterday’s left off and the first step is cleaning and prepping the mitered tubes to tack and braze. Typing this out with so few words makes it feel like it should be something that takes little time. Just three things really — …
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Kirk Fat.
Winter in Montana is long……..very long…….and one needs to have stuff they enjoy doing outside during all those cold and snowy months. As the old timers say “winter is 9 months long and then there’s 3 months of really tough sledding.” For a few decades I did a lot of XC skate skiing and enjoyed …
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