CX bike built going to Portland, Or.

 One of the rare full builds I have done this year. The bike is set up with Shimano GRX 820 mechanical with 880 wheels. The bars are the new Shimano 'Discovery' gravel bend and should provide some long ride comfort. The tires are Gravel King 700x30 as this bike will be primarily used on the road in the near term. The fork is an Enve G-series painted to match and the stem and post will be Easton EA-70. The saddle and post on the bike are not part of the build and just there for the photo. I rode the bike and everything is working properly but I had a heck of a time with the front brake bleed. It seems fine now but it was a lot of work getting it there. I'll have to look at a few more videos to see some shotrtcuts to getting the job done in a more timely fashion - hard for an old guy to learn new tricks.

Aluminum track frame with steel fork going to Japan

 This one is going to the Blue Lug shop. The satin clear coat makes this one look like it was anodized rather than painted. The frame is very light but it should be really stiff and good for either the velodrome or urban fixed gear riding. The steel fork will accept a brake and it has NOS track ends out of my dwindling collection. The frame is capped off with a Jen Green headbadge.

SSCX in steel goint to Iowa

 There's a new set of Paragon sliding dropouts that are a first for me.  They were a bit more labor intensive than the ones I usually use and they are a bit lighter. Time will tell how they hod up to the rigors of racing as that's what this frame will do. I hope that the owner really likes the ride and fit. The dropouts were a request from this customer and I would not have known they exist without him requesting them . Another unique thing is the custom head tube decal supplied by the customer himself -an actual water-slide decal. I had the painter apply it as it has been decades since I have installed a decal like that. The image is that of a grim-reaper-lobster....sort of. Very original and I didn't really catch onto it until I had seen it a few times.

Gravel frame in steel going to Alaska

That's right- this one is going way north. It can take pretty large tires and has dropper post routing as well. Th customer ordered a specially painted Jen Green badge with a white background- I like the look and think that tow-color badges would compliment the original style two-color decals well.
 

Steel all-road gravel-go most places frame off to Bellingham, Wa.

 British racing green is truly one of the classic colors and this frame has the fork painted to match. The bike will be set up with newer Shimano Di II. My aluminum list is nearly empty but my steel list is filled with frames similar to this one- very popular this year. The head tube is 44 mm ID for a King Inset-7 headset.

WCCX SS going to NYC

This one will be hitting the east coast CX races this fall. The rider has the geared version and decided to have his 'B' bike a single speed that could also be run with wireless for gears. He didn't want his fork painted and the frame is pure race. I hope that he likes it and has lots of great racing with it.
 

WCCX frame for team mate in Fairfax, Calif.

This one is the dual purpose EBB version that can be used for single speed as well as geared. This might be the final frame in the summer batch which now numbers 9 frames. The bike will be set up with Di II wireless but I did put the larger port in the BB shell if an older set with the junction box will be used- I call this "past-proofing" ........I don't think that too many people think of this but I might as well make the frame as versatile as I can . 
 

The sight bend in the seat stays is to make room for the brake caliper and to aid in the bleed process by creating more room where the bleed port is. Another thing that most people might not think about.  It is kind of amazing how complicated bicycles have gotten since I started building frames in 1978.