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.
 

7005 gravel frame for a local

This bay area rider has a road frame from me and now he has a gravel frame as well. This one is mated to an Enve G-series fork . The 7005 aluminum is light yet really stiff - good for sudden efforts and maintaining control on rough surfaces. The cookies are not part of the deal, though.....those are coming home .
 

Boost 29er in steel

This one came out really nice but it's bittersweet this time- some of the items on this frame were made by Paragon Machine works and they are ceasing operations. It is likely that the head tube ,dropouts and BB shell will be extinct, at least until a new company decides to take on the task of making these parts. I have plans to source things like der. hangers from a local machine shop if nobody decides to purchase Paragon's drawings and programs. I'll definitely be keeping everyone in the loop about this development. In the mean time I have bought a ton of der. hangers so I'm good for awhile and will be able to service bikes I have made. 
 

7005 road frame going to Brooklyn

 This one is married to an Enve fork that has been painted to match. It also has a Jen Green sterling silver headbadge- unusual for an aluminum frame. I hope that UPS treats this one gently- had a couple of boxes sent to the midwest that got a real beating- must not be a happy crew of drivers out there. Hope that they are able to find inner peace........never had problems with the local drivers or really any of them for years. Last real damage I experienced on a frame was in 1993 !

Drop-bar MTB bike fully built.

 Yes, this is not a gravel bike- it has a dropper post and a short travel Fox fork and it can take 2.1" tires so I call it a drop-bar mountain bike. In 1986 there were a bunch of us in Santa Cruz riding 26" MTB's with drop bars. The fad did not last long but I guess people didn't forget about it. When wheels and brakes got better there was a way to build an updated improved version of what we were riding 40 years ago. Here's the latest example. The other components of note are the Chris King 50th anniversary gold headset and the Praxis Doon crankset. These cranks are the lightest I have ever seen and they are still strong enough for a bike like this. I bought a pair for the Bro-Tour Plus bike in the earlier post. I thin that these and the Easton EC-90 cranks are leading the carbon charge in the crankset sweepstakes. The wheels were built by me in the shop with DT-350 hubs and Light Bicycle rims. This is a real price-point wheelset for a custom build. There's a 180 mm rotor up front and a 160 in the rear- good to have the stopping power for the larger tires.