The basket has been a fixture in the bike world for as long as people needed to carry anything on a bike. The pros of the basket far outweigh the cons on a city bike like this mixte for Deb. It gives her easy access to what she’s carrying while allowing her to monitor it […]
Bikes that are light weight are a little more fun to ride, I’m just going to throw that one out there. With lightweight components and thin walled tubing, many steel bikes can hold their own in this age of aluminum and carbon bicycles. Jon was not obsessive about the bike’s weight but he definitely wanted […]
There is really only one type of person who needs a custom bicycle and that person is outside of the bicycle sizes commercially available in retail shops. Everyone else, myself included, just love bikes so much that they want one that was specially made for them. I’m guessing that Barbara is a little of column […]
When Leslie described what she was looking for in a city bike, the list wasn’t too long. She wanted a step-through style frame and the fit had to be perfect. She also wanted to address the previous issue of numbness in her hands. This bike achieved those goals and more. Because of her negative experiences […]
The bikes I’ve built up to this point have mostly adhered to traditional components and frame design. These standards exist because they’ve been tested in real world applications for over a century and they work. And while trying new technologies is not a huge leap for me, the technology in question has to make sense. […]
There’s something inherently beautiful about the simplicity of a road bicycle. This is compared to the touring bikes with fenders, lights, and racks that I normally build. Victoria’s 46cm road bike was built from some of the lightest steel tubing available (Columbus, Dedacciai, and True Temper) and unavailable (Super Vitus 980). I was able to […]
This was the first bike I had finished since the birth of my son, Tully. I was concerned about being able to focus on the bikes while adjusting to the new family life. The fact that my shop is in my backyard and that sending email via the phone is the new norm helped immensely. […]
I don’t have a muscle car background so I was unfamiliar with the 70s Dodge color called Plum Crazy. Colors appear much flashier on car panels than on bike tubes though. So this color combined with the classic Nervex lug shape remind me a lot of Jack Taylor’s early building style with their later “flamboyant” […]
This bike was collaboration between Ryan and myself. This was the third (!) bike that I’ve built for him. You’d think that this would expedite the process but that is not the case as I found out as custom is custom and this will always make the build take longer. Ryan is a very knowledgeable […]
Dynamo powered Di2 light touring bike, v2.0
March 9, 2017
In early 2011 I built myself a bike to ride in a technical trial of sorts called the Oregon Manifest. The purpose was to build a bike that would be ridden over a mixed surface course and it would score points based on whether or not it fulfilled a list of set criteria. It was […]