The batch goes to heat treatment

 Yes-I have not been idle-as soon as I got back from vacation I launched into these 10 frames . I'll have photos of each after they are painted. This represents about three weeks of work. I think they came out pretty good considering the age of the builder.

Small steel all-road frame for Colorado

This one is going to and industry person. It will be set up with internal chainstay-exit rear brake and it also has a T-47 BB shell. Yes, I did not offer this for years but now I do so there.....I did eventually cave to all the requests ! I also offer UDH on steel frames now- I'm bending with the times and it's really not much of a learning curve to deal with either of those two items.  In route ? .........that is a bit more of a learning curve, at least in my case. Maybe like learning to operate an new phone-not something older people really warm up to-and I am an older people.
 

Steel gravel/CX frame with UDH

Well, never thought I would be building with UDH dropouts but now I am thankful as the supply of non-UDH dropouts has been temporarily interrupted with the demise of Paragon Machine works. I'm sure that within a few weeks the situation will be much better but in the mean time all the steel frames I will be building will be UDH such as this one. I can still build non-UDH aluminum frames and have been doing so for the last few weeks-been so focused on building them that none of them have made it to the blog ....but they will with time. I'm sorting out a very strange time in the bike business right now- it is not what I would call a good time but it won't be like this forever-I'm taking steps to do what I can .

 

Retro style fillet brazed bike with steel fork for sale

Not everyone's cup of tea maybe but still a super cool bike. Low standover, high bar position, three bottle mounts, full fender and rack braze ons- even a pump peg. This would be good for light touring or Rando riding as it has fairly calm geometry and a bit longer of a wheelbase. It has 650B wheels and can take much larger tires than the 650x38 Maxxis ramblers. Cantilever brakes, QR  wheels- it's got some nods to classic bikes but the shifting is still modern with Shimano 105 throughout and a GRX double crankset. 

Fit numbers : top tube 550 , seat tube c/t/c  530. This is a good bike for someone about 5'9". The wheels are built with NOS Wolber # 58 rims out of the shop collection. These rims have been in storage for over 40 years. The front end has a 1" threadless King headset . I'm asking $ 3,500-about what the frame and fork would cost. It's a new bike and it has only been test ridden once by me. Email me if you are interested.
 

Steel time trial frame for NY state

 

Yes- that's correct. This  is the first steel TT frame I have built in many years. It has a NOS True Temper S-3 airfoil down tube and Columbus Foco chain stays- remember those ? Along with NOS rear dropouts, this one is chock full of bits out of the collection of vintage frame hardware. 

Steel gavel frame for bay area rider

I have built a couple of frames for the husband of this customer and he saw fit to set his wife up with a new ride as her present bike was about 40 years old. I hope that she likes big tires and disc brakes along with more upright positioning . The frame will be mated to an Enve G-series fork and will have the mechanical GRX 1X 12 speed group- my top favorite.
 

Steel road frame and fork for Japan

 Like the previous post, this is also a frame set ordered by the Blue Lug shop in Japan. I did get to use a bit of NOS stuff on this one as well- I think that the fork crown is at least 25 years old and the dropouts are from the '80's. The tubing however is current Columbus Zona and Life . The specs are from the drawing that Blue Lug sent and the geometry is classic stage race . I'll be sending this one out this week hopefully along with the previous one. 

27.5 rigid steel MTB frame and fork for Japan

This one was ordered by the Blue Lug shop. The rider is older than I am so I tried to not make him wait too long for this one. As you can see it is made for rim brakes-I don't get to build frames like this much these days so this one was a real treat and I got to use some of my NOS stash of materials. I won't go into the minute details but safe to say , this one is very faithful to the flavor of MTB frames from the very beginning of my time as a bike frame builder. I hope that the customer likes the way it fits and rides.
 

Vacation is over- time to weld

Here's the first frame built since I have returned from vacation- a really tall steel all-road frame.This one will be set up 1X with Sram wireless , hence the UDH dropouts. The frame will be paired to an Enve G-series fork so that the bike will take larger tires for variable road surfaces. Chain stays are just over 420 mm. I rode an aluminum version of this frame on my vacation. 

 

On vacation in the Pyrenees

Yes, that's right. I'm out of the shop and it will be closed until the 23rd of this month. I'm in a village called Fuilla at the foot of the Pyrenees. I'm here to visit my friend Chipps- formerly of Singletrack magazine in the UK. He and his wife moved from the lake district in the north of England to a much sunnier local. I approve- it is some of the best cycling I have ever experienced. Here's a few shots .

 

7005 gravel frame for south bay rider

 This one looks like a Christmas ornament....in a good way though. This color really lights up in the sun-it is a base-coat top-coat candy style powdercoat that rivals fancier paint. The Enve G-series fork has been painted to match by Joe's bicycle painting. Powdercoat was done by 'Powdercoat It' in Santa Cruz.

Single speed steel 29er for Redding , Calif.

 This might be my very last rocker-dropout single speed - that is unless someone decides to resume manufacture of the dropouts and inserts. This frame is pretty light as the owner is pretty light as well. The wheelbase is kept pretty short with the bent seat tube. In order to keep the standover low the head tube is an integrated style that eliminates some of the stack height. There's a lot to this frame, even if it is a single speed.

An oldie gets a new life

This fillet brazed road frame and fork from the '90's was in a crash and the fork was destroyed and the front end of the frame was bent. The owner was determined to have it fixed so he sent it back to me, even though I have not done work like that in years . It took me a number of months to get around to fixing it but fix it I did and here's the result. I'm not sure if the geometry will be identical to how it originally was as I dod not have the original drawing any more but I think based on the numbers it should ride well. I am really happy that the customer gave me a long leash and never hounded me on the delivery time. I hope he likes the bike as much now as he did before the accident.
 

Semi-in-route steel gravel frame

Yes- semi in-route means that the brake line goes into the frame through the down tube and BB and out a port in the chain stay. The brake lines do not go inside the head tube though. This is a much simpler way to set up the brakes than the full in-route system. I think more people might be wanting to go this way. The BB is a T-47 ....yes, I had refused to offer these for years but the requests got too numerous to ignore. I also found a tap set at a decent price so tooling up for T-47 did not cost as much as I thought it would . This frame has what might be my very last Paragon tapered head tube. The T-47 BB shell is also Paragon but I think I still have one or two in stock. 
 

Another steel gravel frame for Switzerland

 This one is much like the previous one except that it is much larger. No fork with this one- customer must already have one I guess. 

Gravel frame in steel for Switzerland.

This shop has been a steady customer for almost a decade. I appreciate that they source frames from me when there are so many other builders out there. This one is steel and it has a painted to match Enve G-series fork. They like their gravel bikes long and slack-I'm sure that the geometry is a product of the local riding  conditions.