WCCX frame for another returning team member.

The owner of this frame raced on the team as a junior. He was so good that he got an offer from Bear Developement and wound up riding a frame like this in the worlds . His plan is to try to qualify for the worlds again but his current team has an MTB program and does not have a CX plan for him. He asked if he could do some races on his old team- they said OK. I say OK as well- great to have him back wearing the kit and racing on his Lobsters. It will be a real hoot if he winds up back in the worlds-I'll have to go to watch this time as it isn't often that I get to see one of my team racing at this level.

 

WCCX frame for a returning team member and SSCXWC winner

A rider who has done more gravel than CX for the last few seasons has decided to get back to her CX routes. She won the SSCXWC race here in Santa Cruz by a good margin so this upcoming season looks pretty good for her. As you can see, the frame is very small and is only 3 lb. 4 oz. and has a slightly smaleer down tube than most of the other frames of this style. It's still built to take some serious abuse.

 

Steel cross country 29er with UDH

At 5 lb. 9 oz. , this one is fairly light for this style of frame. The rear will accept a 2.35 tire and the front end is made for a 120-130 mm shock fork. 

The geometry is what I call 'nimble', not for gap jumps but made for fast trail riding. 

 

Lowish-trail Randonneur frame and fork

Not something I have done many of but  hey, I don't mind branching out now and then to make something that someone has a specific use for . This one has fittings for fenders, internal generator wires and mounts for the rack that you see, although it is not fully bolted down and is at a bit of an angle that it won't be once it is correctly installed.

The front dropouts have the integral electrical Son generator contact and hopefully I'll be able to thread the wire through the fork blade before boxing it up and sending it east.

 its a tall frame with a lot of BB drop and a lot of fork rake-should soak up the bumps well. It's surprisingly light, too. 

SSCX going to Canada

All I need for this one are the thru-axles and I'll be able to box it up and get it on its way north. This one is pretty light and should be a good race rig for the mud and snow that it is likely to see.

 

Grey Poupon

This color is becoming very popular. This 7005 CX frame is going to a shop in San Fransisco - I think it is the first frame they have ordered from me. I'm glad it will be in their hands before CX season really gets going. This and a bunch of other frames in other posts will be leaving the shop as soon as I can get shipping boxes. It's harvest time at Rock Lobster cycles.

 

7005 CX frame going to plains state

This one is going to the middle of the country. Maybe it will get races in Tulsa Tough or Jingle cross...two races I have wanted to go to but have yet to experience. There's a CX scene in Iowa.....this is true. 

this frame is tall enough that it needed a head tube longer than the usual tapered version I use. This one is 44 mm ID and will take a King Inset-7 headset. 
 

Ultimundo steel road frame for San Jose

This one is going to the son of someone who I used to ride with every Sunday for years. I'm getting old enough now that I am building frames for the adult children of my earlier customers. The father got his own road frame from me in 1989.

This one will get built with an Ultegra/GRX mix so that the customer can have mechanical shifting .

 

WCCX frame going to Durango, Calf.

Yes, this one is going to Colorado as well, just a different area. I'm just waiting for my forks to show up from Enve , then this ad a few others will get boxed up and off to their new owners.

 

WCCX frame going to Boulder, Co.

This is not the same one in the earlier post but this is how the other one will look, maybe with some different color decals to make it easier to tell the bikes apart in a hurry.

 

An old one comes back for a re-fresh

Going along with the last post, this frame was made about the time the Boulder dad was racing. I think it is a 1994 team issue TIG SL custom order. I did a run of about 27 of these and most of them were stock sizes- this one was not. It also had beefier tubing for the large rider who told me: "Build it strong" . I get the feeling that he had broken a few bikes in his day. He never broke this one. 

It came in for a new der. hanger and a seatpost binder repair. I was able to do both pretty quickly once I got around to doing it. Getting around to doing it was not quick, however. Still, it will be re-painted and Hopefully back to the customer in time for the CX season. 

 

WCCX frame going to Boulder, Co. and beyond

The rider of this frame is very active in the sport of CX as a junior and his dad raced on one of my bikes back in the early '90's. Dad says that it is time for the kid to go to Belgium so off he will go with two of these frames and represent Boulder CX in the hotbed of the sport.                  

Just one set of bottle bosses and no guides for shift cables- this one will be wireless. I hope that he has a good experience over there-I hope to travel and see some races this winter if I can make the time.