Steel 29er going to Boulder, Colorado

You might think that I have not been building many frames as of late- this is not the case. What I have not been doing has been posting all of them on this blog ....hope to catch up with that some time soon, This is the 45th frame of the year so I am on a quicker pace than I had intended for 2026 - wanting to build only 70 frames in a year. I guess if they are turning out as nicely as this one I'll keep at this speed. 
 

This frame is unique in that it is designed to work with the Enve rigid carbon fork and is unlikely to have a shock fork or a dropper post. This is a cross country rig all the way with the only modern feature being the UDH dropout. If I were making myself a steel MTB frame I'm pretty sure that it would look just like this one.

The frame is going to an old friend who is a bike industry lifer and was on our CX team for a number of years. He has had many of my frames - I hope that he really likes this one.

Really tall steel all-road frame going to Brooklyn

Yes, this one is big- one of the largest frame so far in 2026. It is made to take wireless drive train and is mated to an Enve G-series fork. The set is complimented with a silver King headset and seatpost collar, along with a Jen Green headbadge. It's a popular combo for sure and purple is coming back .

 

Steel CX/Gravel frame for Texas

This one is light- 4 lb. 1 oz. It is not made for tires larger than 700x40 so it is more like a CX race frame. The UDH dropout is currently the only way to roll until I get more normal Paragon style dropouts- this will happen in a few weeks. Until then I'll be UDH only on steel. I'll make sure that I ask customers first if they are ok with the change , not that it is a really big one- the UDH dropout will take SRAM or Shimano, even Campagnolo - it's not exclusively a SRAM dropout.

 

The batch goes to heat treatment

 Yes-I have not been idle-as soon as I got back from vacation I launched into these 10 frames . I'll have photos of each after they are painted. This represents about three weeks of work. I think they came out pretty good considering the age of the builder.

Small steel all-road frame for Colorado

This one is going to and industry person. It will be set up with internal chainstay-exit rear brake and it also has a T-47 BB shell. Yes, I did not offer this for years but now I do so there.....I did eventually cave to all the requests ! I also offer UDH on steel frames now- I'm bending with the times and it's really not much of a learning curve to deal with either of those two items.  In route ? .........that is a bit more of a learning curve, at least in my case. Maybe like learning to operate an new phone-not something older people really warm up to-and I am an older people.
 

Steel gravel/CX frame with UDH

Well, never thought I would be building with UDH dropouts but now I am thankful as the supply of non-UDH dropouts has been temporarily interrupted with the demise of Paragon Machine works. I'm sure that within a few weeks the situation will be much better but in the mean time all the steel frames I will be building will be UDH such as this one. I can still build non-UDH aluminum frames and have been doing so for the last few weeks-been so focused on building them that none of them have made it to the blog ....but they will with time. I'm sorting out a very strange time in the bike business right now- it is not what I would call a good time but it won't be like this forever-I'm taking steps to do what I can .

 

Retro style fillet brazed bike with steel fork for sale

Not everyone's cup of tea maybe but still a super cool bike. Low standover, high bar position, three bottle mounts, full fender and rack braze ons- even a pump peg. This would be good for light touring or Rando riding as it has fairly calm geometry and a bit longer of a wheelbase. It has 650B wheels and can take much larger tires than the 650x38 Maxxis ramblers. Cantilever brakes, QR  wheels- it's got some nods to classic bikes but the shifting is still modern with Shimano 105 throughout and a GRX double crankset. 

Fit numbers : top tube 550 , seat tube c/t/c  530. This is a good bike for someone about 5'9". The wheels are built with NOS Wolber # 58 rims out of the shop collection. These rims have been in storage for over 40 years. The front end has a 1" threadless King headset . I'm asking $ 3,500-about what the frame and fork would cost. It's a new bike and it has only been test ridden once by me. Email me if you are interested.