Disc-only 'cross frame

Well, it had to happen some time.....the disc brake revolution on cyclocross bikes has made inroads into my build list. This is certainly not the first disc-only 'cross rig I have built , but the frequency of this kind of request has gone way up in the last few months. There's a lot of advancement in the brake systems and the recent UCI reversal on the disc brake ban at sanctioned races has fuled the latest trend. I try not to have an opinion on this subject and leave it up to how these bikes perform in races. My guess is that they will do fine. I have fun building them.
I made the cable routing for the brake hydraulic compatable so the rider can have a choice rather than be stuck with no alternative to a cable actuated brake.

Steel 'cross frame and fork for San Fransisco

This is a Euro with a fender package option. No racks, no touring stuff, just a race bike with fenders.
This should be a sturdy reliable ride for town , country roads or the bay area race courses.
The owner of this frame and fork was a founder of Cyclocross Magazine so I know he'll appreciate all the time and care I put into this frame and fork,

Team 'cross frame for a local

Here's another one, the third for this week. The total batch will be six and I hope to have them all done next week with only two to go.
oddly enough, the last name of this racer is Crossley.....turns out that his name is perfect-he can motor at 'cross.

Here's a close-up of my new innovation,err...band aid.....hmm......solution to a rare problem. I don't want to have any problems and neither do my cusomers.

7005 'cross frame bound for Kansas

This frame features the new gussett that will be a new part of all my aluminum and scandium cyclocross frames. The goal of this small triangle of plate is to re-enforce the area of the bike that tends to fail the soonest. Now perhaps the rider will get an additional few seasons out of the chainstay......or the bike will break somewhere else-I guess time will tell. I don't have a big problem with chainstays breaking on bikes but the few I have seen got me to thinking that maybe I could do something about it and save myself some work in the future.
Increasingly people are asking for road cable routing on their cyclocross bikes. I'm not one to argue with what people want as long as they are sane, or at least sincere. I have known some insane people who are very ethical .
Here's another view where you can see the new feature in all of it's tiny glory.

Cross frame bound for Malaysia

No, that was not a typo-this frame is really going to Malaysia just as soon as the brakes and fork arrive. I have sent some frames to Singapore, Taiwan , New Zealand, Australia , Guam but this is the first to the island nation.
The customer wanted a scandium team bike, paint and all so that is what I built. I even got to use my last US made NOS scandium tubes out of the stash I had been saving. This was the right size frame for what I had and I hope it works well on the other side of the planet where it is going.
I still have yet to prep and install the r. Der. hanger, seat collar and a BB cable guide.

Cross frame for Chico

This frame went together without a fight.....not to say that some are a pain but there are frames that keep me at work later than others. This one went together nicely and it allowed me the luxury of a twilight 'cross ride-good for the morale this time of year.
Nothing out of the ordinary here, just a good workhorse race frame from mostly my dwindling stash of US made NOS Easton 7005 tubing. I think by the end of 2012 I'll be out of this great material forever.
I'm trying to build three of these this week to complete the last 7005 frames of the year. Next week it will be a few Scandium frames and then back to steel for the rest of 2011.

Steel 'cross frame bound for Portland

Yes, that's Portland as in Oregon. I guess the customer for this frame decided that lugs, stainless logos and a two year wait were not in his case a selling point. I hope he likes what I built for him and I hope that he gets to thrash it in the incomparable sticky mud that is the regular track in Portland cyclocross racing.
No extra stuff here, just a bare bones steel racing machine with the only extra being the white painted on panels. There also is a matching fork but I didn't get time to photograph it. Suffice to say that it is a straight blade unicrown made to take some serious abuse.