Milholland Bicycle Company

This is Griz’s track bike in the jig with the top tube ready to be brazed in. The white paste all over the lug area is brazing flux.

Track dropout after cleanup.

Went for a nice evening ride to Powell Butte. The trails on the backside really are fun, and the view is wonderful. I love my 29er! If anyone wants to go for a ride on Tuesdays let me know. I have not been to Browns Camp yet and would love to go out their with a partner in crime.

This is one way of allowing for any angle with the lugged look. I am going to build myself an expedition style mountain bike using this technique. I really love building lugged mountain bikes. I have always felt their has been a gap in the mountain bike market for classy yet able mountain bikes. Hit me up for a lugged mountain bike because  I am really feeling it right now.

Griz’s front triangle is all mocked up and looks like it will represent! Tube fit is the key to a low stress, fine built frame. Next I will make sure all of the lug points are snug to the tubes and tack the tubes in the jig in a specific order and align. I actually tack and one tube at a time, check alignment, and then fully braze outside of the jig. Stress Bad!!! 

I am really into lugged Mountain Bikes! Tomorrow I will be brazing up a joint that uses a phaux lug and fillet brazed construction to allow for a lugged look but no limitation to the lug degree. This means any geometry I want!

Went on a ride up the road to Mt. Tabor with my brother and his completed bike (no paint yet). The thing rides like a dream. It is the best tracking mountain bike I have ever ridden. I am in love with this design. It also has a sweet lugged fork!

My 29er did good as usual. Its very fast compared to 26″ wheels but I feel that I have to charge down trails a bit blind compared to my 26″ design. I feel like I can stop time on the 26″ and navigate, but the 29er sure can handle bumps!

Chilled out at Indian Head beach on the Oregon coast. Found some crabs, a few snails, and some sun!

These are the head lugs for Griz. I toned down the shape of the lugs to add a Japanese style and shortened the points. The seat lug has been shortened all around for a more aggressive look.

His plans are finalized, I am just waiting for some tubes to come my way.  

I designed fork plates to make a double plate fork crown but my PC crashed and I lost the file. Crap!! A lot of work down the drain. Any machinists out their that want to make a prototype?

Took a nice trip to Pacific City today. Jumped down a giant sand dune (Sheri thought she was going to fall off of the earth), ate a huge Burger, and saw some baby seagulls. The beach crowed always freaks me out and being able to drive on the beach sucks, but we pulled through and had a great time. Off to a BBQ. Ahhh summer time in Portland!

These baby seagulls were so cute. They would run away from each wave in a pack and then decide the water was ok. Mom was on look out.

Sent Alana’s bike to Dean at Acme paint. It’s going to be a light green satin with a dark brown outline and creamy brown fill for the logo. Tasty!

My next project is for Grizzly. Its going to be a lugged track bike (for Alpenrose velodrome) with double oversized tubes and a japanese influences style. The fork is going to be a double plate fork to add some class.

A bit of lug carving over here.

  Some simple Keirin style lines. I am going to make Griz pee his pants.

I saw Will’s bike on the street in front of Bike Central. He works on it as a messenger and just went to his first PIR cross race. I love seeing my stuff on the street with some chips in the paint.