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Front triangle moc-up

admin — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:49:52 +0000

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!

Griz’s shaped lugs

admin — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:36:16 +0000

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?

Alana’s bike off to paint, Keirin Klidesdale in the works

admin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:35:04 +0000

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.

Camping at the Lewis River, Washington

admin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:33:31 +0000

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!

All that is left to do on Alana’s bike is to polish the water bottle bosses and rear dropout faces.

Floyd’s 2 coffee shop, race on Mississippi St., Alana’s frame

admin — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:10:29 +0000

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 some amazing carnitas tacos and margaritas, and enjoyed the crit race right on Mississippi. Looked like a hard race but stayed pretty clean. Its a blast seeing the hometown heros duke it out on the street

And worked on Alana’s bike. After shaping the seat lug to match the head lugs, I finished the rear drops, checked the alignment of the front triangle, and tacked in the chainstays. I also managed to get the fork blades brazed in. It’s getting their!

A good day in the shop

admin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:02:40 +0000

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 up the lug to match the Bikini lugs on the bike, added a nice little touch at tghe bottom. Got the top tube brazed in and and aligned the bike. I also brazed in the dropouts and mocked up the fork in my fork jig. This thing is going to be sweet!

My new toy is a Henry James brake boss jig. This little masterpiece of design will save me loads of time positioning cantilever bosses and brake bridges.

Even if you don’t build bikes, Henry James has some good info.

This is what happens when loved ones are reunited