Jade's bike

Just a few more

More pictures to look at

Between recovering from a broken collar bone and preparing for NAHBS I really haven't been able to ride near enough. I think it's made my sit-and-stare-at-bike syndrome worse, which is something that my girlfriend says couldn't get much worse. I just can't help it, when you can't get out and ride a small fix of stare at bike and dream about ride might help you squeak by. What I'm really doing is giving myself more reasons to post more pictures of my bike, and maybe while I'm at it some of Jade's bike. Local photographer Sean Bagshaw of www.outdoorexposurephoto.com
took these for me.

My 29er is born again!!

Just for fun here are some before and after pictures of my 29er. I wouldn't change a thing about the ride but there were always a few things on the R. triangle of this bike that bothered me because I had thought up ways to do it better. For example, the R. brake caliper mount, the bend in the seatstays, and many other subtleties that probably bothered only me but I guess I just couldn't get over it. the final prompting to cut my bike in half hit me when a customer expressed interest in having internal cable routing on his pending bike build.
This wasn't something I wanted to try for the first time on a customers bike so I thought I'd try it on mine when I rebuilt the rear end. Please note that this is not just two holes drilled into the frame. This is the real deal, it's 1/4" stainless tubing routing inside the top tube and seatstays to the drop-outs. The biggest challenge being getting from the head tube to the drop-outs with
out having to exit the frame to go around the seat tube. The curves in my seatstays just happen to connect to that junction at an ideal angle to weld them to the top tube instead of the back of the seat tube, this allowed me to route my cable conduit straight into the seatstay.
Anyway, it was fun being able to perform a few experiments on my own bike and I came away feeling pretty good about how it all came out.

Zach Morrow's bike

Well, the handmade bicycle show is coming right up and I'm really hoping to finish a SS 29er I'm working on in time. It's going to have some really unique qualities including some custom machined drop-outs. It's going to have some other one of a kind features as well, but that is all I am at liberty to say at this time.
Anyway, between that bike and digging a trench for a power line to my shop and being out of town I have neglected my blog. Jason Van Horn has done a fantastic job of getting this thing set up for me, as well as his on going work on the rest of the site, so it's good to finally be doing some justice to his work. Thanks for your help and patience Jason!

Here are some pictures of Zach Morrows 29er from North Carolina. It was one of my favorites I have built for a while because he decided on some nice features, such as the box gusset between the HT and DT for fork crown clearance. This is the first one like that I have done and it made me wish I had done the HT gusset on my bike that way, it relieves the stress of getting enough crown clearance for any fork. It arguably may be a better reinforcement as well. I think these are some of the same pictures Zach posted on MTBR a few weeks ago.

Jason Van Horn's Wolfhound Single Speed

Jason Van Horn sent us a few snap shots of his new Wolfhound single speed, taken at Baker Beach, a few miles from his home in San Francisco. Jason is the photographer that shot the portraits of me on WolfhoundCycles.com. He also designed and built the site. Check out his ezine if you have a chance- www.ihatebikes.net.

Jade's new 29er

Some pics of Jade's bike getting built up: