Scandium track frame

 all of 2 lbs. 5 oz.  , this frame will be the third I have built for this young racer. The frame will take 650 wheels as this rider is an 11 year old and not quite 5 feet tall. She's a district champion and has endless enthusiasm for riding.

 The family was lucky enough to find a Reynolds Ouzo Pro 650 fork.....a rarity. Her road bike had a Wound-Up , also a great lightweight carbon fork and still in production in the USA.

The rear dropouts are from Ahrens design and have bronze inserts that wrap around the axle for maximum support. These aren't cheap but are worth the price. With luck ,this frame will do duty at regional and national championship events.

MTB 29er frame , fork and stem for Switzerland

 This one is in a box and with luck will go out tomorrow bound for a shop in Switzerland.

 This fully rigid steel 29er single speed is pretty old-school in that it is meant to be ridden as a rigid bike without making allowance for a suspension fork addition.......makes me think that this rider is into simplicity.

I don't make very many stems and fewer like this one-a 25.4 MM bar clamp that really goes along with the retro style of the frame. The internal brake cable is something I used to do in the early '90s.....it adds quite a bit of style for $ 100. The champagne gold color is like an early '70's Masi Gran Criterium.

A duo of single speed aluminum frames

 This poor guy's last two race bikes have been stolen. This is the replacement, although it is the first of my bikes that this rider has owned. It is nearly the same as the frame that was ridden to the National win by Aaron Bradford except that it is for disc brakes only .

 Another difference is the 44 mm ID head tube for a tapered-steerer fork and the BB-30 shell. I guess this frame has all the new stuff that has become available in the last year or so.

 This frame is a fixed-gear road frame, essentially a track frame with road angles and a brake bridge.

 The frame sports the more traditional head tube and threaded BB shell. Both of these frames are in a current batch that looks to finish up at 7 frames total. With luck they will all be done by the end of the week .

The dropouts have stainless steel inserts , a nice touch for durability. These will be a standard feature of all of my aluminum track frames.

7005 'cross frame

 This is my stock and trade race frame . This frame is part of a program that involves a number of builders building a few types of frames for certain events. I got picked to build what I am known for-lucky that I didn't have to build something I'm not comfortable with.

 Other than the BB-30 this is what my typical 3 lb. 5 oz. cyclocross race frame looks like. I hope the rider enjoys it.

This weeks visitors

 The Sea Otter was last weekend so all sorts of industry folks have been by the shop. I didn't get photos of everyone but here's two guys from Chris King who didn't seem to mind the messy confines of my shop.

Sylvaine and Conrad from Mavic liked the shop as well, despite the typical mess and piles of metal everywhere......notice that I took the photos outside the shop ?

Bike for the next door neighbor

 The future owner of this frame wanted me to make it light so I chose True Temper S-3 top and downtubes and some really light platinum seat stays along with the Columbus chainstays formerly known as 'Foco'.

 All of this steel wound up weighing 3 lb. 10 oz. , really light for a steel frame of this size. This rider has a habit of breaking things-hubs rims, frames.....my hope is that he gets a lot of years out of this frame. I put the der. cable adjusters on the side of the head tube as I didn't want to heat the side of that paper thin down tube. True Temper S-3 is pretty dicey to weld and requires a very steady hand. I pulled it off in this case, but only just. My eyes and my hands are not what they used to be, even if my experience level is pretty deep.

The frame will get a Keith Anderson paint job so I know it will look great. I'm currently riding a bike with a similar tubeset and despite the thin walls of the tubes the ride is stable and solid.

Dumpstervaagen ready to ride

Yes, those are German flag tires. I won't just be rolling.....I'll be Ja-volling at the Sea Otter tomorrow.
The Retro-shift resides on this bike and will for the forseeable future. I have some big rides planned for the coming weeks.