Steel MTB frame for Austin, Tx. with UDH

What is a UDH ? I'm not 100% sure- it is something that SRAM is pushing so I get the feeling that they (SRAM) are wanting to creat something that separates them from the other component manufacturers - read: Shimano. Not much else out there to separate from these days. 

This s the second UDH frame I have built. At this time I can only offer this feature in steel. If a aluminum version materializes then all the folks that are asking for it (And there are a few ) will get what they want. 

What does the UDH do ? You'll have to ask Sram. To me it does not look much different than other hangers except that it has a more complicated way of attachment. Still, it looks pretty robust and people are clamoring for it so I will offer it. It might be maddening trying to keep up with all the new standards and gadgets in the bike frame building world but at least this one was not that complicated- only thing that threw me is that the thru-axle threads are not what I normally use.....it was the threading I used 10 years ago but most of the industry abandoned it. Well, now it is back- 1mm threaded thru-axles. I still have a few in stock that I never thought I would be rid of..........
 

Road SL disc for western Nebraska

Yes- the SL is now available in a disc brake version.....only took a few years but I finally got the tube selection where I feel good about the long term durability while keeping the weight down to 3 lbs. 1 oz , at least in this case. This one is built for mechanical shifting but there will be a version that is wireless with internally routed brakes , just like the pro-tour bikes. I know people will ask for it so I want to be prepared to give the people what they want-I can't single handedly hold back the industry trends and in spite of my age I feel that offering the newer stuff is a good thing- it will show that even a small builder can be pretty darn close to the cutting edge of all the new gadgets-some of them are actually good-some of them will go the way of the Do Do if they are not- it won't be my decision, it will be all of you out there showing the bike business that good innovation is welcome , but stupid stuff is not. I welcome your input.

 

Huge 7005 road frame going to St. Louis, Mo.

this is one of the largest frames I will build this year. It will take a road+ fork so that it can fit 700x35 tires. I tested a 700x38 Maxxis Rambler in the frame and it fits. If the fork has the same room you could do some dirt rides on this bike but it really is a road frame.

 

Large steel CX frame for Pacifica, Calif.

This customer got a frame from me a long time ago. He has come back for another with the idea of disc brake and larger tires. This frame should do the job with the Enve fork and King headset.

 

Steel CX frame for Winston Salem NC

This frame is made for mechanical shifting and 2X- might as well have the option.

The Enve fork was painted to match by Joe's bicycle painting in Watsonville, Calif.

 

7005 all road frame

Yes- not a CX frame, not a gravel frame. This is essentially a road frame made for up to  700x38 tires. It falls between a road bike and a gravel bike with features borrowed from both.

I wanted to make sure that the 38 mm tire would fit so I used S-bend chain stays but I also wanted to retain the road bike look so I used straight seat stays for a sleeker look. 

This one will be set up with Sram wireless so other than the brake routing, this is a very clean frame.
 

WCCX frame for another returning team member.

The owner of this frame raced on the team as a junior. He was so good that he got an offer from Bear Developement and wound up riding a frame like this in the worlds . His plan is to try to qualify for the worlds again but his current team has an MTB program and does not have a CX plan for him. He asked if he could do some races on his old team- they said OK. I say OK as well- great to have him back wearing the kit and racing on his Lobsters. It will be a real hoot if he winds up back in the worlds-I'll have to go to watch this time as it isn't often that I get to see one of my team racing at this level.

 

WCCX frame for a returning team member and SSCXWC winner

A rider who has done more gravel than CX for the last few seasons has decided to get back to her CX routes. She won the SSCXWC race here in Santa Cruz by a good margin so this upcoming season looks pretty good for her. As you can see, the frame is very small and is only 3 lb. 4 oz. and has a slightly smaleer down tube than most of the other frames of this style. It's still built to take some serious abuse.

 

Steel cross country 29er with UDH

At 5 lb. 9 oz. , this one is fairly light for this style of frame. The rear will accept a 2.35 tire and the front end is made for a 120-130 mm shock fork. 

The geometry is what I call 'nimble', not for gap jumps but made for fast trail riding. 

 

Lowish-trail Randonneur frame and fork

Not something I have done many of but  hey, I don't mind branching out now and then to make something that someone has a specific use for . This one has fittings for fenders, internal generator wires and mounts for the rack that you see, although it is not fully bolted down and is at a bit of an angle that it won't be once it is correctly installed.

The front dropouts have the integral electrical Son generator contact and hopefully I'll be able to thread the wire through the fork blade before boxing it up and sending it east.

 its a tall frame with a lot of BB drop and a lot of fork rake-should soak up the bumps well. It's surprisingly light, too. 

SSCX going to Canada

All I need for this one are the thru-axles and I'll be able to box it up and get it on its way north. This one is pretty light and should be a good race rig for the mud and snow that it is likely to see.

 

Grey Poupon

This color is becoming very popular. This 7005 CX frame is going to a shop in San Fransisco - I think it is the first frame they have ordered from me. I'm glad it will be in their hands before CX season really gets going. This and a bunch of other frames in other posts will be leaving the shop as soon as I can get shipping boxes. It's harvest time at Rock Lobster cycles.

 

7005 CX frame going to plains state

This one is going to the middle of the country. Maybe it will get races in Tulsa Tough or Jingle cross...two races I have wanted to go to but have yet to experience. There's a CX scene in Iowa.....this is true. 

this frame is tall enough that it needed a head tube longer than the usual tapered version I use. This one is 44 mm ID and will take a King Inset-7 headset. 
 

Ultimundo steel road frame for San Jose

This one is going to the son of someone who I used to ride with every Sunday for years. I'm getting old enough now that I am building frames for the adult children of my earlier customers. The father got his own road frame from me in 1989.

This one will get built with an Ultegra/GRX mix so that the customer can have mechanical shifting .

 

WCCX frame going to Durango, Calf.

Yes, this one is going to Colorado as well, just a different area. I'm just waiting for my forks to show up from Enve , then this ad a few others will get boxed up and off to their new owners.

 

WCCX frame going to Boulder, Co.

This is not the same one in the earlier post but this is how the other one will look, maybe with some different color decals to make it easier to tell the bikes apart in a hurry.

 

An old one comes back for a re-fresh

Going along with the last post, this frame was made about the time the Boulder dad was racing. I think it is a 1994 team issue TIG SL custom order. I did a run of about 27 of these and most of them were stock sizes- this one was not. It also had beefier tubing for the large rider who told me: "Build it strong" . I get the feeling that he had broken a few bikes in his day. He never broke this one. 

It came in for a new der. hanger and a seatpost binder repair. I was able to do both pretty quickly once I got around to doing it. Getting around to doing it was not quick, however. Still, it will be re-painted and Hopefully back to the customer in time for the CX season.