Drop bar MTB frame for Eugene , Or.

 Most of you would call this a gravel bike frame but when the tires get close to 2" wide I call it a drop bar MTB. Back in 1986 there were lots of people running drop bars on their mountain bikes- it was a fad that maybe lasted a year. Now the trend is back but it is not going away any time soon. With much better wheels , brakes and tires a bike like this can really move along compared with something from almost 4o years ago. 

This one also has the UDH , which is gaining in popularity as people adopt the new rear der. standard. I'm still getting used to the difference in fixturing and learning a bit more every time I mess with one of these Paragon setups. There's more than one version but this is the one I choose for now. It is the lightest of the few out there and it welds up in a similar style to what I already use. Oh yeah- this one will take 700x47 tires but I'll bet you will be able to run 50's. The fork will be an Enve adventure version which has lots of tire room.

WCCXSS - # 6 in the batch

 I am in the midst of the first aluminum batch of 2025. I hope to be done with this run of 10-11 frames in 2 weeks. This one is the sixth, a single speed. If one wanted, it could be run with a wireless 1X shifting system as the dropout can take a hanger for a rear der.

For those of you wondering if the UDH is available in aluminum.....it is not and I have no idea if it ever will be. For me to personally bankroll the development of an aluminum 7005 dropout would be unlikely as the cost would be significant and I am already leveraged with a big inventory of aluminum dropouts of the more traditional kind. The other factor in my reluctance to fund an aluminum UDH is the likelyhood that the industry would come up with something different that would replace the UDH and I would be stuck with obsolete inventory- enough money spent on stuff that becomes unusable and boom-you are broke. That would not make anyone happy......I have seen it happen to many talented builders- they get leveraged by buying big on stuff that winds up not being useable and they have not enough money to buy what they really need- like paying rent and buying brazing and/or welding supplies.

So for now and maybe for a long time to come, this is how my aluminum frames will look- no UDH but still the kind of frame that you can depend on to ride at any level of the sport.

Very small 7005 CX frame

This has to be one of the smallest 700c wheel CX frames I have ever built. Seat tube is 36 c/t/c, top tube is 49. The rider is 4'10" with short legs. This will hopefully be a bike that works for her. The frame is 2 lb. 15 oz. for a 110 lb. rider. 
 

7005 track frame for Japan

This is a mass-start style aluminum track frame that will be mated to a steel fork that I am finishing later today. The owner is a mechanic at a shop called "Blue Lug" that I have seen in Loop magazine, a Japanese bicycle culture zine that I used to get in the mail for years. I miss getting my Loops , even if I could not read the articles. The photos were good enough for me- I even saw a couple of my bikes in there years ago. 
 

Judging by the longer chain stays and 45 mm fork rake my guess is that this bike will be on the road a lot more than on the velodrome. 

Crash replacement

Unfortunately the owner of this frame was hit by a car so the identical frame that I had built for him in 2022 got badly damaged. Fortunately I still had the original drawing so I was able to build another one just like the original. This is a WCCX frame for a 50 MM rake Enve G-series fork.
 

Steel belt-drive Alfine Di II frame

That's right....all that and rear generator light wire guides. This on has a lot going on and there's many hats that this bike will wear from shopping to long gravel excursions. If you are looking for something like this that can take 700x45 tires, this is what it will look like.
 

All these features are not standard and the belt splitter and sliding dropouts will add about $ 250 to the frame price. The rear brake routing is internal on the top tube and external on the seat stay. It is on the underside of the seat stay so it won't get in the way of the rack when mounted. This was a fair amount of work and I hope that the customer is happy with it. 

Steel gravel frame with painted to match fork

This one is going to the Pacific northwest where it rains a plenty. The bike is made to take full fenders front and rear as the Enve G-series fork has some eyelets. Its good that Enve had the foresight to offer up this feature on their most popular gravel fork.
 

Steel gravel frame for a local

 This guy is a regular on the Wed. night team ride and he is wanting a bike with an upright position and room for 700x45 tires.It will be built up with Shimano GRX  12 speed with a double crankset with mechanical shifting..

Ultimundo frame in the classic style

 Yes- mechanical shifting and rim brakes - just like my own personal bike, the one on the website.

This one has external brake routing , a pump peg and some NOS Suntour vertical dropouts.

Steel gravel frame going to NY state.

 This one has the Sram UDH and is made for wireless shifting. Definitely a bike of the tech era.

What has been happening in the shop the last few days ?

 I'm not in the business of making replicas of old classic Italian bicycle frames but I made an exception last week to produce one. All of the materials were new old stock and just about everything was free. 

I have never owned a Masi Gran Criterium and it is likely that I never will......but I'll have this one that is my best effort at re-creating the frame I could never afford. There's a few things that are not perfect aesthetically on it but the construction method and materials along with the geometry are pretty damn close to the real deal. I'll have it painted the classic Masi red and II have nearly all the old Campagnolo '70's Nuovo Record parts to put on it. While I really don't need another old bike to ride , this one kind of checks off a few boxes for me as a frame builder. I need to do a project like this once a year to remind myself of how much work a frame like this -however simple looking -can be.

I did not tally the hours I spent on this-I know that I could spend a lot more if I really felt it would make it a better frame. I'll stop now as I am fairly satisfied with it and of course, I have to go back to building other people's frames.