Aluminum track frame with steel fork going to Japan

 This one is going to the Blue Lug shop. The satin clear coat makes this one look like it was anodized rather than painted. The frame is very light but it should be really stiff and good for either the velodrome or urban fixed gear riding. The steel fork will accept a brake and it has NOS track ends out of my dwindling collection. The frame is capped off with a Jen Green headbadge.

SSCX in steel goint to Iowa

 There's a new set of Paragon sliding dropouts that are a first for me.  They were a bit more labor intensive than the ones I usually use and they are a bit lighter. Time will tell how they hod up to the rigors of racing as that's what this frame will do. I hope that the owner really likes the ride and fit. The dropouts were a request from this customer and I would not have known they exist without him requesting them . Another unique thing is the custom head tube decal supplied by the customer himself -an actual water-slide decal. I had the painter apply it as it has been decades since I have installed a decal like that. The image is that of a grim-reaper-lobster....sort of. Very original and I didn't really catch onto it until I had seen it a few times.