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 [...]
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Alana’s bike off to paint, Keirin Klidesdale in the works
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 [...]
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Camping at the Lewis River, Washington
Went on a great first camping trip for the season. The river is moving faster than I have ever seen. These are the lower lewis river falls. Usually you can hang out all around them, but the water was so high from the run off we couldn’t get close. Sheri invented the official anti-bug device! [...]
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Floyd’s 2 coffee shop, race on Mississippi St., Alana’s frame
Had a very busy weekend! Rolled down to check out the new Floyd’s coffee shop in Old Town, Portland. They are tearing down the remains of what used to be the Voodoo Lounge. It’s going to be a lot of work but a very nice spot. Went over to Por Que No and inhaled [...]
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A good day in the shop
I went down stairs with a big cup of stumptown coffee this morning and didn’t come up until 10 pm. Just through the ipod on shuffle and went to town. A sweet new toy arrived in the mail today along with some Henry James dropouts and a seat lug for Alana’s fast tourer. I carved [...]
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Front triangle moc-up
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 [...]