SL road- 'Bro-Tour' model

This is the second one of these I have built so far. It is essentially an SL road with drop seat stays and aero tubing. The idea is to mimic bikes on the pro-tour. This one is only three pounds plus the weight of the frame and it is going to one of the fastest 16 year olds on the west coast.
 

SL road with a very unique finish

This frame has a powdercoat that started out textured-kind of like a Coleman thermos. The clear coat painter managed to smooth it out and did a pretty decent job of replicating the finish on the fork with wet paint. It isn't perfect but it closer than I thought he would be able to get- I tip my hat.
 

The frame is a 7005 SL mated to an Enve disc-road fork. This one is going to Ma.

Smallest aluminum frame of the year so far

Yes- this one is tiny. It is less than three pounds and it fitted with an Enve G-series fork and a Jen Green white bronze badge. It also with have a black King Dropset-3 . Looking forward to hearing how the 5' rider likes this gravel setup.
 

Steel gravel frame for a loca.

 This one would fit me ! It is Columbus Zona and it will be set up with mechanical shifting. It has a Jen Green white bronze headbadge, too.

Double oversize lugged frame in for repaint

The first reason this frame came back to the shop was to have shifter braze ons removed. The owner has gone for wireless shifting. The new color scheme is a classic candy red with panels. Very classic-the decal placement and whole design of the paint work was relayed directly to the painter by the customer. He flew out from Arizona just to do this - that's someone who is really hands-on with his bike work. He is a  commercial pilot so at least the flight is free.......still, that's a long trip to just see a painter. I tip my hat !
 

Steel UDH gravel frame for Seattle

 This is the second UDH gravel frame I have built so far. This one is made for 700x45 tires and has rack mounts on the back. 

Ireland trip

Just flew back from Dublin and boy are my arms tired. I'll be in the shop next week after nearly two weeks off. It was really good to get away from the shop and the normal day-to-day .....you can't really appreciate what you have until you get a bit of distance from it , at least that's how I see it. Here are a few of the photos I shot from our trip. We went to Westport , Connemara and Dublin. Mostly motored and hiked around these areas. Below is a photo of the typical wetlands and bogs we saw. You can't swing a dead bicycle frame here without hitting a bog. We were immensely lucky to have friends hosting us for four nights and driving us all over the west of the emerald isle. We were also fortunate to have hardly any rain the whole trip-I think that leaving the bikes at home were the biggest factor in the weather being good for riding- always seems to go that way.
 

Would I recommend Ireland as a vacation spot ? yes. Friendly people and beautiful countryside and affordable meals and lodging , along with the English language being spoken make Ireland an easy place for Americans to have an easier go of it in a European travel destination.