Friday, November 29, 2013

Anderson Truck Trail

Thanks to Mike for the picture. Normally I would be impressed with a post-Thanksgiving ride with dry trails... but this is San Diego, where it's ALWAYS good riding weather. So a big raspberry to you, Mike - here we have PM2.5 levels that make it unhealthy to exercise. I hear Park City calling our names, I think.
Old style no-seat-tube-manipulation WW FS bike. Man, these look weird to me without bent seat tubes and tapered steerer forks now...

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Sneak peak... Gal's 29+

Everything that can go wrong with assembling this bike has - spent almost an hour dealing with swapping the front axle after WI sent the wrong one, need to true up the rear wheel after some shipping tweakage, and I'm inexplicably (ok, explicably: distributor screwed up) missing one brake rotor. Ugh.



But it's gonna be wicked fun and I have permission to ride it around the block before I take it back apart and put it in a suitcase.


Saturday, November 23, 2013

Geekery 2: Cody

As promised, geometry info on Cody's frame. Along with a pic - blinding white!


Now:
-71 degree HTA and 81mm trail/63.2cm front center. XC all the way!
-42.5cm chainstays and 31cm BB height. 
-Paragon Poly's for 140mm rotor, built for an 80mm travel tapered steerer fork.
-Plenty of room for a 2.4 tire, s-bendiness, and downtube routed 1x cables/hoses. 

The bottom line: Cody sold out and wants gears and suspension so he can race with the other spandexy people instead of the singlespeeders. He didn't want to go crazy with the chainstay length or super slack or anything else trendy - just something similar to his singlespeed with a few tweaks for STRAVA'ing, or even real racing, not that anyone does that anymore. You could get on this bike out of your time machine from the mid-90s and be comfortable riding it - though you'd probably be blown away by the big wheels, disc brakes, and suspension. 

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Promised Geekery 1: Peter

Last week I claimed I would be posting geometry info for Cody and Peter's frames. Then everyone got sick and I never got around to it. Whoops.

Front end

So here you go, post #1: Peter's aggro XC/FR 29" dualie.

-120mm rear travel (though my FS bikes actually get a little more than advertised if you really managed to hit something hard - so it's really more like 130mm) and built around a 140/110mm travel taper/15mm Fox Talas in the front.
-68 degree HTA and 94mm trail in long travel mode, around 69.5 degrees and 84mm in 110mm setting.
-43cm chainstays, 69cm front center, 35cm/13.75" BB height unsprung.
-Built for a 31.6mm stealth (there's a little port in the bottom of the seat tube) dropper post.
-61cm/24" effective toptube for those folks who like to know. Effective 73 degree STA.
-Frame with shock is around 7 pounds, it's fairly overbuilt.

Clean frame, messy shop

In short, this is a do-it-all bike. It won't win any XC races, it won't win any DH races, but flip the talas switch and swap tires out and you've got a pretty capable bike on almost any terrain. I'm also in the process of working with Peter on a new chainstay assembly (the very kludgy prototype can be seen here) which will incorporate all sorts of fun features like a rear through axle and post mount brake mounting. More on that as it develops.

Monday, November 18, 2013

Price increase Jan. 1st!

Yeah, you all knew it was coming sooner or later. Starting January 1st, my frame price will rise to $1600.

Put down a deposit before then and you'll get yours at current pricing, of course. And pricing hasn't changed for anyone already on the list.

Why? Bean is eating us out of house and home with his pomegranate habit!

Yes, painting smock for eating this sort of food... and it's still not enough to prevent the mess

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Random Thursday for-sale

-Fork=sold

-Hope Pro2/Stan's Flow 29er wheelset. The front wheel is a Stan's HD 15mm hub, rear is a Hope Pro2. All black DT comp spokes/nips, black hubs, black rims. In great shape, same miles as the fork. $500 shipped. For an extra $50 I'll throw in a low-mile set of Maxxis Minion DHR/DHF tires.

I also have a very nice slack-angles/short chainstay 6" travel 29er frame (all those parts can be packaged with it) available that I just don't have a use for here in UT. As usual, it'll fit best for folks shaped like me - long legs, short torso, around 6 feet. Lots of details available, just email me.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Pukeday!

Bean started barfing yesterday, Sarah barfed all of last night, and I'm probably next in line. Apologies to anyone whose email I have not responded to, we are in get-well mode here.


Monday, November 11, 2013

Veteran's Day: You Guys Rock

I haven't done a great job advertising it, but I do offer a discount to vets and active duty military folks:
-$100 off a frame
-$200 off a complete bike

My best to everyone out there who serves our country in the military - you guys and gals rule.


Thursday, November 07, 2013

William - done

This is a fun one! It's a nigh-freeride short-chainstay geometry but will be run singlespeed and with pretty light parts - essentially an XC bike with super-aggro geometry. Which, coincidentally, is what I like to ride myself a lot of the time.

Slider inserts shown are just for fixturing - the frame will have postmounts and no hanger


Without further ado:
-68 degree head tube angle and built for a 120mm (29er) fork - that's generating an even 100mm of trail and 68.5cm front center (ETT is 62.3cm/24.5")
-41cm (actual) and 40.5cm effective chainstay length with plenty of clearance for a fat 2.4. The only tire you couldn't run on this bike would be a Knard.
-Boring 30.5cm/12" bb height. Gah. So boring. But it should mostly keep the pedals off the rocks while also putting William down low for cornering and mayhem.
-Curved fattie seat post for a 31.6mm dropper. Those suckers are LONG so you gotta kinda squeeze in the curve to make it work.
-Loads of other curves - downward curving TT (and yes, Todd, it's a butted tube), s-bend stays, etc.
-Frame weight is about 2150g/4.75#. Not super light but with a big long fork and the fat seat tube/dropper, plus the aforementioned strong possibility of mayhem - I think that weight is about right. Note to the weight weenies - curved toptubes add weight, you can't really throw heat treated tubing in the roller and get great results in most cases.


Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Getting close...

I should be able to finally finish William's silly-short chainstay singlespeed tomorrow. Got close today but a demanding toddler derailed my plan to finish up.

Yes, I swept! Missed at least one leaf, though...it's that time of year.

Monday, November 04, 2013

Bending stuff.

If you don't count the head tube, William's bike is only going to have one straight tube on it. That's a lot of bending... toptube, and seatstays (bend 1, bend 2) shown here.




Friday, November 01, 2013

Last minute costume... also probably poor taste

...but we thought it was pretty funny.