Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Bro-tour rim brake ? - yes, it exists

Here's one for the books- modern look, old style rim brakes and mechanical drive train. The Bro-Tour will replace the 'SL' in my aluminum road frame offerings. Of course, this does not mean that I won't be able to build the SL, it just means that this model will replace it on the website eventually. All of the earlier ones I have built have been for disc brakes but this rider felt that he didn't really need them. I hope he likes what I built for him. It is very light at barely 3 lbs. for the frame. 
 




All-road steel frame going to Truckee, Calif.

If you are on our CX team and you win a national title, I build you a free frame of your choice. Caroline Dezendorf won the single speed class in the nationals last year so this is her choice- a steel all-road frame with an Enve all-road fork. She already has a fleet of CX bikes so this one should fill a role that the other bikes don't.
 



Really huge all-road 7005 frame for St. Louis, MO.


 This is a super tall one. I built a rim brake version for this customer some years ago and he decided he wanted room for bigger tires and some disc brakes. This frame is wedded to an Enve all-road fork so the bike will take 700x38 tires. I hope that it makes the rider happy. This one is going to Big Shark bikes in St. Louis .




WCCX frame going to Asheville, NC

This one, along with all the parts is going UPS to Asheville , NC this morning. I hope that the rider really enjoys his first foray into a modern CX bike. 




 

Two WCCX frames for new team member


 These are going to one of the local legends.....or really, the local legend of bike racing. He has been on a few teams over the years but now he has joined our team and will be racing cyclocross on this pair of frames. I'm hoping that he will get them built up soon. Thanks to Chris King for the deal on the 50th anniversary stuff and to this rider , who's own business Tom's Well service is a new sponsor of the team. 




Friday, September 11, 2026

7005 CX/adventure frame for a local

This owner got a similar frame from me about 10  years ago and was looking to replace it after many thousands of miles on the first one. His most recent ride was a 300 mile jaunt from Santa Cruz to Santa Barbara in just a bit over 24 hours. I guess the aluminum frame was not too rough of a ride .....it's all in the tires in my opinion anyway. This new version has an Enve adventure fork with adjustable offset and many mounting points. Maybe this one will see even longer rides.....
 




Steel single speed/geared big tire CX

The customer for this one asked to be able to run 700x50 tires -this will do that. It also has a semi-in route rear brake routing -not through the head tube but through the T-47 BB and exiting on the chain stay. This seems to be a popular option lately. It's a little more work for me with creating the larger ports int the BB shell but it's easy to do on the Bridgeport mill. This frame weighs 4 lb. 9 oz. and it is for a 5'11" rider.