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.