what's up in Santa Cruz

 Other than the downtube cable routing this is pretty much a typical 7005 'cross frame. There's a small headtube extension and the...

 Inspite of the disc tab on the dropout slider that you see in the photo, this is not a disc brake frame. The inserts are installed for bu...

 This frame is pretty much a normal 7005 aluminum race model with a 44 mm i.d. head tube and a PF-30 bottom bracket. The thing that wil...

This bike even has a handbuilt stem. The tires are Bruce Gordon Rock'n road tires, big and cushy.  This bike will be seeing a lot o...

The bike is all XT and I built the wheels with Mavic 717 rims. The fork is a Fox 100 mm. The 2x10 drive train is pretty much the stock set...

 After waiting a week for the last two braze ons, I'm at last done filing on this frame. Since it was June of 1978 when I completed my...

 Here's the beef......at least the downtube. This frame has a bi-oval NOS Easton 'Rad" downtube. I think I still have about t...