New hats in stock

Yes- the next season of CX is just about to start and the team podium hats have arrived. These are the 2026 version and they are in the limited edition color.....that's limited to how many you all want. The price is $ 25 and they can be ordered with an email to me as these are not on the webstore yet. I have almost 100 of them in stock but they are starting to go ........not gone yet but going.
 

7005 CX with Campacho UDH

 here's another frame with the made-in-spain UDH. I have built three frames with this setup so far and it has given me the idea to produce my own UDH dropout to interface with the non-driveside flat mount dropouts that I already have. This will make fixturing and welding easier for me as the shape of the dropout will be roughly the same as what I have been using for over 20 years. 

The color of this one is 'forest green'. The frame is matched to the Enve 'Adventure' fork. 

Bro-tour frame for local

This one is full in-route and will get the full Chris King parts build. It isn't a big tire version but a straight ahead road bike for 700x32 tires max. The fade was done by Joe's bicycle painting in Watsonville.
 

A pair of fixed-gear MTB frames for Kansas City

I built these two earlier this month and am finally getting them on the blog. The customer has been riding fixed off-road for years and these are not the first of their kind that I have built for him and his buddies . The frames are sturdy but not overbuilt . The customer source Paul Component 'swoopy' dropouts which apparently are being made again . 
 

The wishbone seat stays are made by Tange to my design - something I have wanted for years and now finally have. These frames look very much like the first versions I built about 15 years ago-I hope that they hold up at least as well as the earlier versions.

 

Bro-Tour plus for San Fransisco

This is the in-route UDH Bro Tour plus that will be mated to an Enve all-road fork. The frame and fork will take up to a 38 mm road tire making it a mixed road surface bike.

This is the first one I have made with all these features but I think there will be many more. Increasingly people are shying away from smaller tires on the road, myself included. I do believe that 700x28 and smaller tires have a place in road racing but larger tires for casual rides are really the way to go for comfort .

 

Touring big tire steel frame and fork for Seattle

These days I refer to this as a drop bar MTB although this one might not have drop bars. It has the look of an MTB frame but it isn't quite that. It can fit some pretty large tires but it's not made for shredding the rough stuff. That said, I think it can handle some variable road conditions well. 

 

Flat bar/MTB/29er kinda gravel rig for Marcells, NY

 This one is built for comfort riding the tow-paths and the like in NY state. The bars will be up and comfortable and there's attachments for a rack and three bottles as well as a top tube bag. When I retire I'll be riding something like this ......if I retire ...

The fork is one that I built using NOS True Temper unicrown blades. They are better than anything I can buy nowadays. I'm very lucky to have stocked up when I did. They are coming in handy as more people are opting for steel rigid forks as of late.