Milholland Bicycle Company

Greg’s road ride all built up

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:29:52 +0000

Greg’s bike features a very appropriate tough yet light weight tubing selection for a tall rider. The geometry offers a nice steering feel for long rides. Not too jittery, but not sluggish. It will also have a nice dampening effect to make those long miles on rough roads enjoyable ones.
Paired with a Campagnolo triple group, Nitto stem and seatpost, and beautiful lugs, this bike captures style of the past and the performance of the present.
True love.

Eric V’s back from paint

admin — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 01:42:58 +0000

Price increase March 1st

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:14:31 +0000

As of 3/1/10 base frameset cost is $1700. Their are many reasons for the price increase, but it is mainly due to higher cost of paint and materials. I have also known for a long time that I am unable to stop myself from doing what the frame tells me to do, which results in many extra hours of detailing a frame.
So get on the list now folks and save some cash!

Greg’s frameset before the build

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:00:14 +0000

Greg, your bike is being built as we speak.

Photos by Kristina Nash

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:24:16 +0000

The off days

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:38:57 +0000

When I’m not building frames I am riding my bike. When I am not riding my bike I am fly fishing.

Nothing like dressing up in a fat suite and standing in a stream all day in some of the most beautiful land in the world. Some heavy thinking and zen moments happen out here.

Ammon in his new gear

Monsters at camp!

Eric’s road frame all cleaned up

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:25:58 +0000

Some great photos of Eric’s frame from Kristina Nash.

These lugs were inspired by one of my favorite constructuers, Ernest CSUKA. Ernest was a long time French framebuilder for Cycles Alex Singer who has recently passed away. He has left a large footprint in frame building history and will continue to inspire for a long time to come.

Steve’s cross frame

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:05:23 +0000

One day I will get a good photo of this, but here it is!

This single speed cross frame features ornamental head tube and seat tube reinforcement rings, double plain style fork crown, and fillet brazed joints. It also has hidden fender mounts on the seat stay and chain stay bridges for a clean full fender set up. The slightly sloping top tube allows for easy stand over and a comfortable handlebar height while maintaining a classic style. The photo doesn’t do the color justice. Its an avocado green with a gold outline on the logo and avocado skin green for the fill. This thing lights up in the sun!

The geometry of this bike makes for a smooth ride, yet does not feel sluggish. I contribute this to the custom fork. I am able to rake the blades and build the fork height to what ever I desire. This allows me to perfectly match the head tube angle of the frame to the fork rake in order to obtain the correct “feel” for the customer.

Its all in the details!

Some lug design.

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:36:20 +0000

Here’s an example of what I go through during my lug design process. Lug carving takes a lot of practice. It takes a steady hand, lots of measuring, some hard-learned tricks, and a LOT of time.

From here, I will drill and saw out all of the excess material to get the rough shape. I will then use files to get the desired shape and change anything I dont like.

Oregon Handmade Show

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:58:43 +0000

So I just wrote a huge post about the show and guess what, everything was erased! God bless technology.
So here goes. Short and sweet.
The space was beautiful, everyone was in a great mood, the crowd was the best yet. The OBCA really pulled through. Thanks to everyone for their questions and compliments. And thanks to Photographer Kristina Nash, I have some nice photos to show you all.