Steel disc/road frame going to Japan

The 5' rider will be using Shimano Di II on this frame. This is just about as small of a 700c frame that I can build and still have it steer nicely. The fork will be an all-road Whiskey carbon with 51 mm rake. This will match up perfectly with the 70 degree head angle. The bend in the seat stays is there to make room for the flat mount caliper. 

This frame weighs 3 lb. 13 oz. and has an integrated style head tube to keep the standover and bars low enough. The frame and fork will take 700x35 tires. 

 

Disc road frame in steel

Pictures say it all-

 

Email has been down

 Yes,folks- the paul@rocklobstercycles.com email has been down since Oct. 12th but now it is up and running again. I would like to thank elegantgeeks , my web designer for hunting down the source of the problem and dealing with it as everything I tried did not seem to work. Things with internet hosts and email providers are subject to change without notice and I was in a feedback loop from hell with a company who's name will not be stated here. It does make me a bit angry when I know that these multi-billion dollar behemoths can enrich themselves while avoiding providing any service other than the taking of money for the most part. With my business the only thing on my mind is providing service......that's what people are paying for , right ? If only.........

Raffle frame

The lucky winner of this frame rode the Butternut valley gravel ride and bought a raffle ticket that resulted in the winning of a custom frame. 

He specified room for 700x45 tires and an integrated style head tube. The steel frame is 4 lb. even and will be mated to an Enve G-series fork.

 

WCCX frame for a new east coast team mate

This has to be the smallest one of these that I have built to date. The frame is mated to a painted to match Enve G-series fork with 50 mm of rake to match the small frame's slack head angle.

The frame is only 3 lb. but should be good for the rigors of the east coast UCI circuit and beyond.

 

WCCX frame going to Baltimore, Md.

Not sure I have ever seen this color before - "Galaxy Gold"......I like it. The red decals really pop.

There's mud and turf in Baltimore and the added mud room of this frame will hopefully make for less trips to the pit. The frame is paired with a Whiskey # 9  CX fork that has 2 mm less rake than the Enve G-series. This might make for a hair more high speed stability although the difference is going to be subtle.

The frame will be built up with Shimano Di II. 
 

All-road steel frame with carbon Whiskey CXLR fork

Maybe this is more of a gravel frame but it will do lots of paved roads as well.

The load carrying capacity of this bike is key- rack mounts on the frame and fork along with bottle mounts in both places as well. This should be good for bike packing but also good for going to the farmer's market. 

 

Steel boost 29er for a 6'7" rider

This local rider has trouble finding a bike large enough- hope that this one does the job. I used the longest head tube offered by Paragon Machine works - any longer than this and the fork steerer would be too short.

These wishbone seat stays are new to me- an item from Bicycle Fabrication supply in AZ. They are my primary aluminum supplier but they have a good variety of steel as well.

The down tube is a Velospec heat treated 44 mm OD behemoth. It has been a long time since I have needed to use a tube of this stature on a frame for anyone. This rider definitely fits the profile of someone needing a large diameter tubeset to keep the frame durable and rigid. 
 

All road steel frame and fork

Continuing maybe my biggest year in a decade for steel builds , here's a frame and fork for a local. I will be building it up with Shimano GRX with Easton cockpit and seatpost. This should be one to last the ages.

 

Steel rim brake CX frame for local

I think 2023 might turn out to be the year of the rim brake revival. Seems like I have built maybe 10 rim brake frames so far this year - a very high count after several years of hardly any rim brake editions. 

This one is 4 lbs. even- not bad for a steel frame in this size. The tubing is nearly all Columbus Zona. The frame will be paired with a Whiskey #7 straight steerer cantilever brake CX fork. Lucky for the rider, we have one of them in stock. This was my very last pair of Salsa dropouts- I hope to score some from a local bike shop soon but I'm not 100% sure they will part with them. I used to order them from Taiwan in large quantities but the demand evaporated so I have not made an order in a decade. Who knows- if the trend continues I might have to stock up.

 

Steel BTRB frame fork and stem to Ct.

I don't build many stems each year although 25 years ago I built many. Stems like this are heavy and expensive but they look nice and are virually unbreakable. This rider values durability above all else so it is proper for this bike.

The color of the frame and the navy blue decals are a nod to the Merckx bikes of the '80's. The frame and fork are made for lonf ( 47-57 mm ) reach calipers and BTRB stands for .....you guessed it- big tire road bike. In this case big means 700x33 - not that big but for a road bike it is.

 

Little steel CX s.l. geared or SS

I built the front triangle of this frame around 2019. It has been sitting in the shop with a couple other orphans waiting to be turned into something. I have a few free hours today and completed it so that someone on the team might get it. It is 4 lb. 4 oz. so not super light but still pretty good for a steel frame. 

The frame is built like most of the current ones , aside from the PF-30 shell which will house an EBB.

 

steel all-road frame with some paint touches

This one goes to Colorado. The customer used to be a local bike mechanic and was wanting a frame that represented his former home. He was very specific about the paint and I like what he came up with. The work was done by Joe's bicycle painting in Watsonville and I think they did a really good job capturing the idea on the customer's sketch and making it a reality on the frame.

This customer was very set on using post mount brakes so finding a fork was difficult. We settled on a Carver fork from Bikeman as it was the only thing available that wasn't $ 500 or out of stock. The other requirement was a 15 mm thru axle which thankfully this fork has.

 

Ultimundo road frame

My top of the line steel tig welded road frame - this one features the best tubes I have - Columbus life . The frame is paired with a tapered Whiskey # 9 road fork that has a full 1-1/2"  crown race seat so that it really matches the tapered head tube well.

The Ultimundo package comes with the Jen Green sterling head badge and the King Tapered headset. 

The rear brake cable is internally routed as well.
 

One more for the road

Got the bad news that one rider on the team just had his single speed CX bike stolen. I came into the shop today and made a replacement- being partially disabled I can't ride so I pretty much work 7 days a week now. This might be a record fast delivery for me-just got told last night that the bike was gone and less than 24 hours later I have a new one ready to be heat treated. It was an extra tube set that I used after building a batch of 9 frames. Now I'll have an even ten to deliver tomorrow morning- feels good. Now I'll be building steel for the rest of 2023.

 

7005 29er

This is the second one of these that I have built- a cross country 29er with some shaped tubes. The frame is only 3 lb. 13 oz. so the bike should build up very light. This one is not made for big tires as I will most likely be riding it- yes, this one is mine as I think that I might be ready to ditch the 2.6x650 tires for awhile and go with something a bit more nimble and suited to the riding I will do post-broken leg.

The wedge gussett is a feaure borrowed from the WCCX model- I did it as the frame is not really tall and putting a traditional seat stay brace would have made the frame look more like a mass produced item. I wanted it to retain the look of something that came out of my shop . This one is also lacking the wishbone seat stay- I didn't put one on as I only have one of the machined yokes left and was saving it for a paying customer. Yes, I economize on my own frames much of the time- no boutique stuff for me- just the leftover scraps. That said, I think this will build into a really fun bike......whenever that happens- I still can't ride yet.