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.