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.

An oldie gets a new life

This fillet brazed road frame and fork from the '90's was in a crash and the fork was destroyed and the front end of the frame was bent. The owner was determined to have it fixed so he sent it back to me, even though I have not done work like that in years . It took me a number of months to get around to fixing it but fix it I did and here's the result. I'm not sure if the geometry will be identical to how it originally was as I dod not have the original drawing any more but I think based on the numbers it should ride well. I am really happy that the customer gave me a long leash and never hounded me on the delivery time. I hope he likes the bike as much now as he did before the accident.
 

Semi-in-route steel gravel frame

Yes- semi in-route means that the brake line goes into the frame through the down tube and BB and out a port in the chain stay. The brake lines do not go inside the head tube though. This is a much simpler way to set up the brakes than the full in-route system. I think more people might be wanting to go this way. The BB is a T-47 ....yes, I had refused to offer these for years but the requests got too numerous to ignore. I also found a tap set at a decent price so tooling up for T-47 did not cost as much as I thought it would . This frame has what might be my very last Paragon tapered head tube. The T-47 BB shell is also Paragon but I think I still have one or two in stock. 
 

Another steel gravel frame for Switzerland

 This one is much like the previous one except that it is much larger. No fork with this one- customer must already have one I guess. 

Gravel frame in steel for Switzerland.

This shop has been a steady customer for almost a decade. I appreciate that they source frames from me when there are so many other builders out there. This one is steel and it has a painted to match Enve G-series fork. They like their gravel bikes long and slack-I'm sure that the geometry is a product of the local riding  conditions.