Tison Englehardt's Catapillar 29er

Tison wanted a compact geometry for his mad wheelie and trials skills, the bike will have a ton of stand-over clearance with an extra long Eriksen seat post.
The fork is titanium from Blacksheep

Blue Diamond for sale!

This is one sweet build and it's on sale for way too low of a price, but it's time to find a home for this machine. It's FULLY loaded and never been ridden, everything is brand new and top of the line, just like a Wolfhound should be dressed. Please call or email for detailed specs, components, and pricing.

Currently In the Cooker

Here are some pictures of a fork I am building for one of the frames below, it will feature 20mm axle drop-outs, the first "thru axle" fork I have made. So far it's gone well, and it's also the first fork w/curved legs from my shop. The other bike below will feature a titanium fork from Blacksheep, so I'm kind of excited about that one too.

Along with some tastey tidbits awaiting my next project. This bike will be similar in geometry but some of the details will be different, this bike will feature a fork from Tony Pereira.

TWINS?!

Well, almost anyway. These bikes are for two people in different parts of the states, who have never met. It just happened this way, I didn't realize how similar they really were at first but the farther the second one came along the closer it got. I did an individual drawing for each so they both have their own soul.
There are a few options that aren't the same, mainly the wide BB shell and internal cable routing. The SS have slightly different curves, based on the customers preferences. I am very happy with the results, but would like to add for the sake of all owners of Wolfhounds w/custom seatstays , that these bends are all "free-hand" so to speak. Something I may not mention enough is that this is an artist interpretation feature, meaning there will never be two Wolfhounds with identical seatstays(don't hold me to that). I do promise, however, that the seatstays on each bike will be symetrical. My objective with curved seatstays, and every other custom feature for that matter, is to fuse the customers visual preferences with the size of the frame. This becomes very tricky if the customer likes the look of the seatstays on another Wolfhound of a different size. All of the angles are different, and can vary quite a bit, so it's impossible to make one bike look just like another,...BUT I still very much appreciate and need that input from the customer. All the customer needs to know a head of time is that they are basically letting me "sign" something based on their input, and believe me when I say that if I shipped it to them, it means that I made the custom features of the frame combine my eye with their vision and functionality to the absolute best of my ability. If I don't feel like a feature is the best it can be, I do it over. To be honest I'm no stranger to doing something twice(sometimes three,,,,...It's been four before, fiv....... Well, you get the point).

I am NOT writing this as a result of any negative experiences with customers, most have been exceptional so far, and it has been an honor to make their bikes. I am only trying to add a little commentary to the site regarding some Wolfhound philosophy.

I hope you like the pictures, this post will be the first time either of the owners will have seen their bikes, I don't think I need to say who's is who's!

The GREEN GALAKTICA!!

These are some more pictures from Sean Bagshaw of Outdoor Exposure. I scheduled a photo shoot with Sean and it had to be on a day with good weather in the evening. The backgrounds are real!

What's new at Wolfhound

I don't have much to talk about right now due to extreme busyness. This is a great thing, and I actually have many things I could talk about but have been focusing on work in the shop. I just finished the bare frame w/double top tube so there's a few more things to it now, including a killer paint job, I'll get some killer pics of it soon too. This frame was the grand raffle prize after last years Super D. A high school kid won it and he apparently rides quite a bit, he also did his research for the build and he had a pretty cool idea so I went for it. The design was inspired by an Evil Imperial frame, he brought in a picture of it and a couple other bikes with features he liked, anyway, this is what came of it all.
Along with a photo of Wolfhound rider Jason Becker and his geared All mountain number. This is the 2nd of two Wolfhounds for Jason, he also has a single speed.

Life after the Handmade Bicycle Show

This post is a little delayed due to a long list of things that slowly been neglected as the show grew closer (mostly around the house stuff). I talked to several of the other builders at the show and it seemed that we all had gone through some form of caous before the show, seems the be the nature of trade shows. Also seems a little nuts to me how the shows can stress us out more than the actual work itself.
I may be able to post a few pics we took if I find the time to sort through them.
Anyway, the focus of this post is meant to be some illustrator generated drawings that I found pretty interesting. One of them was posted on the Internet and I was able to hunt down the gentleman's email address. He has asked that I don't post his contact info at this time because this is only a hobby to him, but he sent me a few and gave me permission to display them, he even worked up one of my bike for me!
I'm especially interested in the light green steroided cross bike, I would like to someday make myself a cross bike with similar lines.