Suspension length steel MTB fork.

Yes, I do build these when I have time. The blades are NOS True Temper and they are really stout. 

This customer chose to have the three bosses on the sides for some sort of large bottle cage. 
 

Steel 29er Boost complete bike going to Paradise, Calif.

Some of you might remember a big fire that wiped out this town not long ago. This customer lost his house and with it the bike I had built for him. Fortunately , insurance has set him up with a new house and now with a new bike.

The bike I built for him some years ago was similar but this one is a bit updated. It has boost spacing front and rear, more travel on the fork and room for 2.3" tires . It also has a dropper post which the previous bike did not have. This also has carbon rims so it should move along nicely but also be able to take some abuse.

The owner specified flat pedals and I was able to find some Race Face pedals in a pretty close color to the frame. 

The frame was originally going to have a head badge made of silver salvaged from the burnt down house but we wound up going for my standard Jen Green sterling badge. I was really lucky to find the King Inset-7 headset. I waited many months to get this whole build together and I feel fortunate that I was able to finally make it happen. I hope the customer likes this one as much or more than the first one.
 

7005 29er MTB frame for Santa Barbara

This one is boost spacing but built for 2.4" tires so it is more cross country oriented.

About half of the tubes are NOS Easton. I will probably run out of this stuff - at least the most useful tubes in about a year or two depending on how many of these get built in that period. Frames like this are getting more popular as of late.

The frame will take a 31.6 seat post and there is routing for a dropper. The frame will be fitted to a 100 mm travel Fox fork.
 

Took long enough..........

in 1999 I got a call from Mountain Bike Action magazine asking for a single speed bike to be in a feature. They gave me a little less than 2 weeks to come up with the bike so I had a mad scramble to get it together. I didn't get to properly ride it before I boxed it up and sent it to the magazine. I was really broke so I reached out to a few companies for some free parts. Rock Shox, Paul Components, Salsa , Chris King and Mavic gave me most of what I needed. The cranks were used that I bought from a friend so this build was a real cob-job. 

Little did I know that the bike would get a really positive review and that it was the editor's choice out of the 4-5 bikes in the review- all single speeds. My bike made the cover of the magazine and I got some real big time publicity. It took a few months before the bike came back and I was able to finally ride it. I got a sense that maybe I had built the best handling MTB of my career after a few rides. This bike became my go-to MTB for most of my dirt riding, culminating with a ride in the 2008 SSWC Napa where I suffered like never before for 4 hrs. 15 min in 90+ degree heat on this bike. By the end I could barely pedal I was so spent. After that I hung the bike up until last week. I took it out for the first real ride in nearly 14 years........it all came back to me how much I love single speeding and how , even though the bike is 23 years old and the fork is really tired , this bike still rides great. I'm hoping to get back into single speeding this year- pretty insane at 66 years old but hey- it has a nice easy gear and I live where the trails are perfect for single speeding.-Now if I can only find that shock pump.......
 

Aluminum gravel racer going to Santa Barbara, Calif.

This rider is on the team but he already has a team color CX bike. Fornthe gravel circuit he picked one of my favorite colors- "Blacklight purple" . He still did a nod to the team with the seafoam decals.

The Enve fork was painted to match the powdercoat of the frame. This color is very hard to match but Joe's bicycle painting in Watsonville did a great job. 

 

Steel gravel frame going to Texas

This one has some extra crimping on the chain stays for slightly larger 700x45 tires.

The Enve G-series fork was painted to match by Joe's bicycle painting in Watsonville, Calif. I am using them now that my long time painter Allan has retired. I'll miss Allan for sure but Joe's does a great job and quick turnaround as well. 

 

7005 WCCX frame for a junior team member

The big Feb. aluminum batch continues. This is the third frame in the batch that might number about a dozen by the end of the month. I'm trying to play catch up while things are a little slow. I still have about 70 frames on order and about 1/4 of them are just like this- CX race frames. Back a few months ago I thought that maybe I would be building more gravel stuff this winter, particularly steel. After a good long look at the list I was surprised to see that nearly 20 of these WCCX frames were on order. 

After launching this model about 2 years ago I was not sure how many people would want it but it looks to be the most popular frame of 2022 for me. At 3 lb. 6 oz, this one is light but still solid enough for the rigors of CX racing at the national level. One just like this was ridden to 17th place in the worlds in the junior 17-18 category in Fayetteville, Ar. by team member Dan English. 

If you want to ride on a frame just like what I build for racing at the top of the sport, this is the one. The top tube is flattened to make it a little easier on the shoulder when running and the rear tire room will accept up to a 700x40 tire for gravel racing. No fender or rack mounts- this is a frame for speed.