2014 team CX frame for local rider

 With luck this rider will be skidding through the snowy turns at the upcoming nationals in Boulder, Colorado in a few weeks. Nothing like disc brakes and a stout fork from Easton to tame the hilly track at Valmont bike park.

The mango seat clamp and headset are not the official team color but they will help set this bike apart in a sea of team bikes in the pit area.....nothing worse than having your spare bike in the pit and not being able to tell it apart from your many team mates bikes !

These new s-bend chainstays will help with mud and slush room. The Hamms helped somebody-not me......I'm not a good drunk bike rider and I have the scars to prove it.

Fender ready road bike for Paul's 'Racer M' brakes

I even made a custom road stem for this one-the cable guide on the stem is something I have not done in a good number of years-the customer asked for it so there it is .......just like a 1990 vintage stem, except for the modern steerer and handlebar clamps from Paragon.

 I used a Mitsugi crown from Pacenti designs-this is probably my favorite crown to build raked road forks with. It really looks like a Masi crown from the '70's.

The bosses for the Racer M brakes have to be very high as these are center pull brakes rather than cantilever style. The brakes should allow for a 700x28 tire and a fender. Without the fender I'm sure you could throw in a Jack Brown or similar 700x33 tire.

Steel road frame and fork for bay area

 I did not use the really big diameter tubes as this rider is not heavy enough to benefit from it. That said, it should be plenty rigid for climbing out of the saddle and feeling secure on fast descents. This is nearly all a Columbus build from the 'Life' set. The fork is a favorite of mine-the straight blade R-7 crown-I have one on my traveling bike. It is a simple and elegant style.

26" wheel single speed for local

 The bike that was bred on the trails of the upper campus of U.C.S.C. back in 1987 is here in its latest incarnation-disc brakes and a tapered steerer rigid fork.

The frame has my own design adjustable disctab on the the rear so that the Paul's 'swoopy' dorpouts can be used. This frame also has an extra stout 38 mm True temper OX downtube to keep it from crumpling in a big endo on the steeper trails and dropoffs on certain trails that I for one no longer ride on.......

CX bike from the first official batch 1990

 I'm pretty sure it was 1990 or maybe 1989 that I built a run of 8 cyclocross frames and forks-this was the first significant batch of CX frames for me. I did several for a bike shop team in 1986 but these are the first that were available for sale to the general public.

The frames were fillet brazed ( unfiled !)from Tange # 2 cro-mo steel although a couple of them were custom ordered in Columbus s.p. Seven of the eight were built for a now defunct shop called 'Cyclecraft' in Cupertino, Calif. The # eight frame I built for myself. This one in the photo still has it's original blue paint.The owner brought it by last month and I have built a stem for this bike with unfiled fillets, justlike the original would have had. It wasn't until 1992 that I started building tig welded CX frames.

Two S-3 bikes built up

 Who says that steel bikes can't be light ? Both of these bikes are 17 lbs. built up. Throw some carbon wheels on and you would be even lighter.......this was not possible back when i started building frames. If you had a bike that was less than 21 lbs. you were a hero.

Columbus steel road frame for Tennessee

 The rider of this frame has long legs and a short torso-hence the longer head tube. Hopefully, this cockpit will allow the use of a road stem flipped down with no spacers. The tubeset is almost entirely Columbus 'Life' and the frame is well below 4 lbs.

 Yes, those are stainless steel investment cast dropouts. Am I softening my stand on stainless ? In this case, yes. I think that there is some stainless hardware for framebuilding that works pretty well. I'll probably never build a frame with a stainless BB shell or head tube but dropouts are a practical and sensible use of stainless steel.