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Drew Clark should be riding this bike in the </div>
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Drew explained that he wanted a smooth riding, </div>
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Thanks, Drew.</div>
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Been listening to a lot of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSpBZosh5zg" target="_blank">Mogwai</a></div>
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Got another one of those steel lugged, carbon tubed bikes for you to peruse </div>
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and for Dain Zaffke to ride.</div>
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This one has much more traditional lug lines</div>
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Before and after. </div>
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The color is from a mid-sixties Ferrari that resides at a car museum here in town.</div>
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While not a stock Ferrari color, it sure looks great on Italian sports cars and bike frames. </div>
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Hope you've a got a good summer on lockdown. </div>
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Jorge Tamayo just got a new bike.</div>
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We pulled out all the stops and built him a 29er super shredder.</div>
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Here's that revised dropout design again.</div>
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I'm pretty happy with them. </div>
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You can't fake short chain stays. </div>
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Man, that did come out nice!</div>
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Thanks, Jorge.</div>
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Ps I Love You is a band.</div>
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They are very good.</div>
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Here's the thing I wanted to show you:</div>
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I've been working on a new dropout design for a while, </div>
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and they're finally ready for prime time. </div>
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Very similar, but with some small tweaks to an already solid design. </div>
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The main difference is the tensioning system.</div>
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At the end of that set screw is a little brass ball, </div>
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captured by a pocket in the aluminum insert.</div>
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It's the simplest, most reliable way to lock the dropout in place.</div>
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No unwanted forward or rearward movement. </div>
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Add to that, the cinching duties have been taken over by chain ring bolts.</div>
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They are also now 60 grams lighter at 269 grams, </div>
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and still made of rock solid 4130 chromoly steel,</div>
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and aerospace quality 6061 and 7075 aluminum.</div>
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More dropout/axle options to follow... Stay tuned...</div>
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To someone of my persuasion,</div>
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saying you like the Ramones </div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVhjBmcOP30" target="_blank">R.I.P. Ramones</a>.</div>
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A new custom built road bike made specifically </div>
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for Bruce Marco from the Commomwealth of Virginia.</div>
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His new bike is a hybrid of sorts. It's got some handmade steel lugs </div>
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with some carbon fiber tubes carefully glued in there.</div>
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Making these bikes is about as much work as making 3 bikes. </div>
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First I start off by brazing together some tubes at the correct angles.</div>
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Next, the tubes are bored out to the correct diameter in the lathe,</div>
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When the lugs are ready, they look like this.</div>
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Skip ahead another 40-50 hours of work, </div>
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After a bunch more work, the frame and fork are all ready to build into a bike. </div>
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Delicate looking s-bends terminated with</div>
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I think the repetition from the lug to the paint came out quite nice. </div>
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Lately, I've assigned myself some music listening.</div>
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I've been trying to get through the Rolling Stone's </div>
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Top 500 Albums of All Time.</div>
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I certainly don't agree with everything they point to,</div>
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coming up with that list, I can see why. </div>
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In my mind, any and all members of Blink 182 </div>
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Anyway, so far I've really enjoyed it.</div>
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It's interesting to try and get some perspective </div>
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and context to where music has ended up, </div>
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as well as getting turned onto things I never would have.</div>
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There are things that I can now never again torture myself with:</div>
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anything by Pink Floyd, The Eagles (the Dude was right), </div>
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Prince (sorry, <i>never</i> liked him), early Neil Young, etc.</div>
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There are things that I knew were good, but had never connected with, </div>
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which brings us to Aretha Franklin.</div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0POmdK18WU" target="_blank">Check this out. </a></div>
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Now, if that's not completely packed with awesome </div>
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<i>in every way imaginable</i>, I'll pack my things and go home.</div>
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Hey, y'all.</div>
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What's the haps?</div>
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I hope you're all getting out and riding bikes this summer.</div>
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Eric McKeegan of Pittsburg, just got his new bike. </div>
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This one is more of the same:</div>
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Slack and short while at the same time </div>
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being long and low. </div>
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Slack head angle up front, paired with a longer front center, </div>
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A tight chainstay length and low bb offer predictability</div>
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The nearly ubiquitous swinger dropouts on this style of bike from me. </div>
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All the details line up pretty nicely to give a very balanced,</div>
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well mannered, versatile mountain bike. </div>
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The Mini Moose stem offers the rider absolute control </div>
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Eric's bike has the swoopy seat stays y'all </div>
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Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats.</div>
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Mike Simpson just got a new bike.</div>
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Mike lives up amidst the mountains and trees of Northern California .</div>
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He wanted a rigid one-speed with which to tackle the trails, </div>
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Today's bike is for Brian Rogers of the greater Atlanta, Georgia<br />
metro-region. <br />
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What's the catch phrase du jour?<br />
Monster 'Cross?<br />
Gravel Grinder?<br />
CX XC?<br />
Bicycle?<br />
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Whatever you'd like to call it, I'll call it "Bad Ass". <br />
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Features that may help you with your pigeon hole:<br />
Slightly slacker angles than a 'cross bike.<br />
Room for up to 2.1" tires (but 1.85"s are probably more realistic).<br />
Aggressive enough stance for racing, but comfy enough for rolling along. <br />
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Curves in all the right places. <br />
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Straight steerer that keeps the front end stiff enough<br />
for anything most mortals will throw at it<br />
while keeping the weight down, the ride lively,<br />
and the fillings in your teeth.<br />
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Seat stays arced downward to add to the shock absorption<br />
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Custom Enve butted carbon seat mast,<br />
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Pf30 bb shell. <br />
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Black Cat geared dropouts of the newest style.<br />
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Bottle bosses that aren't just riv-nuts that are bound to come loose,<br />
pull through the carbon tube, or both.<br />
Built to last. <br />
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Sounds like a nice pigeon hole to me.<br />
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blackcatbicycleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244202599366436531noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-436267388390150037.post-26996199152750953492014-03-13T09:20:00.003-07:002014-03-13T09:20:47.121-07:00Cat on the Wall<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is a bike for Henrique Tono. </div>
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This is a bike for Mr Hiraiwa in Nagoya, Japan. </div>
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It's a very straight forward road racing bike.</div>
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Isn't it?</div>
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While not everybody's cup of tea,</div>
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Asa Osborne has been exploring</div>
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some of the most meditative music</div>
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I'm willing to expose myself to.</div>
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His work is slowly getting more and more</div>
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elemental until the melody all but</div>
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disappears into a hypnotic sine wave.</div>
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Perfect working music and</div>
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certainly not fist pumping arena rock.</div>
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From playing guitar in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsFGdnJFqBk" target="_blank">Lungfish,</a> </div>
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starting in the early nineties;</div>
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half of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXZopDNAg3U" target="_blank">The Pupils;</a></div>
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and most recently <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8zlm6l_CLo" target="_blank">Zomes. </a></div>
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Hi De Ho, blog-o-teers.</div>
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This bike is headed back out to Mark Schofield in </div>
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currently-snow covered New England.</div>
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This bike was also one that had its front end replaced.</div>
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We took the opportunity to also build a fork for the </div>
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bike's new sizing since Mark had purchased the </div>
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frame second hand.<br />
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The fork is the latest iteration of the Black Cat segmented forks.</div>
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They feature custom drawn tapered True Temper blades, </div>
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silver brazed into a fillet brass brazed crown, and leading, forward facing dropouts.</div>
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It's a mouthful without all the accompanying pics,<br />
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It is kinda interesting (to me at least) to look at the bikes<br />
made some years ago and see the ways things<br />
have changed and way things have stayed the same.<br />
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Same bb configuration. I guess there's only so many</div>
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The seat cluster is noticeably different. </div>
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The seat stays used to attach above the top tube.</div>
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Not sure there was ever a real reason, </div>
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I just like how it looked at the time.</div>
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I <i>could</i> say, less distortion of the seat tube,</div>
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less concentrated heat, etc, etc, </div>
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but the newer ones don't seem to have a problem </div>
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with all the tubes coming together at the same point.</div>
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Right now, I like how the new ones look.</div>
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Go figure.</div>
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I seem to have stuck with the gusset design.</div>
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It seems to be working rather well,</div>
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both as a functioning gusset, and as a calling card of sorts.</div>
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We'll continue to stick with it for now. </div>
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This one is brand new and is more or less </div>
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As esoteric as the differences may be,</div>
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it's those things that keep me interested and challenged.</div>
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Hopefully when/if the big thaw comes to Massachusetts, </div>
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Mark will beat on it as before, without skipping a beat.</div>
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Suddenly, I seem to have noticed</div>
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Dinosaur Jr's name being thrown around</div>
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bands. I agree, for what it's worth.</div>
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All the better. </div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wCpcJTmO20" target="_blank">Almost Ready </a></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPxxRzrpQWs" target="_blank">Feel the Pain</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeQKXyc5jGs" target="_blank">Start Choppin'</a></div>
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The slightest scratch in the surface.</div>
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Pick your own favorites. </div>
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Hey Everybody. </div>
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Specifically the Pony Express Record.</div>
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Let's start it off with another bike to Japan, shall we? </div>
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Designed as a whole with the custom made, size specific forks.</div>
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These disc dropouts are the newest iteration of a design </div>
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Seems like a lot of the disc bikes these days have the caliper mounted on the chainstay. </div>
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There are a variety of reasons I've heard why, but none that convince me that it's better. </div>
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On road bikes, heel clearance can be an issue for larger riders. </div>
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On mountain bikes, people have claimed it's more protected. </div>
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Protected from what? Axe murderers chasing you? </div>
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When riding, I normally try to travel forward, leaving the front face of the dropout exposed to catching and snagging trail debris.</div>
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I'll stick with seatstay mounted brakes.</div>
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All that and, oh yea, precedent setting rock and roll.</div>
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Well, folks,</div>
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I should have a bunch of bikes for you to check out </div>
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if things had gone differently last week.</div>
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Instead, I've got a 'tweener project, a fork for Russ Pope.</div>
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Perfect time to build a fork.<br />
This fork was a replacement for a fork Russ already had.<br />
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It was a production fork and extremely stiff.</div>
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Most of time, these type of projects don't make it to the blog.<br />
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last week didn't go as planned.</div>
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As it sits, I was handed a broken femur when a friend and<br />
I got into a tangle with a car passing another on a<br />
blind corner while out on, what was up to that point, </div>
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a great ride on a beautiful day. </div>
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while spending my time with a good friend recreating in one </div>
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of the most beautiful corners in the world, an area I get to call home.</div>
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I wasn't hurt while subsistence farming to feed a family. </div>
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I wasn't hurt while fighting a brutal authoritarian regime </div>
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hell bent on destroying it's own people.</div>
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I wasn't hurt fighting a senseless war based on lies.</div>
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I wasn't hurt by cowards while watching my family run a marathon. </div>
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With a bit of luck and time I'll make a full physical recovery.</div>
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I'm one lucky dude.<br />
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What happened to me</div>
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could have happened to anyone out there.<br />
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Thanks to everyone who has given their love and support<br />
whether in person, email, snail mail, or just good vibes.<br />
I'm one lucky dude.<br />
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Shellac hold a special place in my heart.</div>
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One minute aggressive and driving,</div>
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the next, quiet and melodic,</div>
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the next, dissonant and unconventional.</div>
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These songs are all from Excellent Italian Greyhound,</div>
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one of their more accessible records.</div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkyTK9tRgHs" target="_blank">Steady As She Goes</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TedZ9IMbzn0" target="_blank">Kittypants</a></div>
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This bike is made for Colby Weber.</div>
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It's got some interesting lug work on it.</div>
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Y'all say you're into pics of metal work, so here's some highlights.<br />
The head tube lugs on this bike are made by me, so this is how I do it. </div>
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First off, I braze the tubes together at their correct angles and finish them, just like any other joint.<br />
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Next I cut them apart and put the head tube portion into the lathe to bore them out to the right diameter for the tube that will fit inside. Boring the tubes out once they've been brazed allows for a lighter lug.<br />
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I cut out a rough window in the head tube to access the inside of the lug. <br />
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Colby is going to be riding this thing up and down the canyons of the Wasatch Front.</div>
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I'm certainly not the first one to use a half tone fade, but it always looks cool.</div>
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Here's those lugs.</div>
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A little of the old and new.</div>
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Old school Cinelli style bridge reinforcements with a PF30 bb shell.</div>
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Not the usual lug lines. </div>
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That time again.</div>
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Disc brakes are the <i>in thing</i> for cross bikes. </div>
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All the cool kids are doin' it.</div>
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I'll say it first: I've always had apprehensions about it.</div>
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I was wrong. </div>
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Disc brakes on 'cross bikes are <i>the jam</i>. </div>
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Don't fool yourself.</div>
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In the future, you'll be able to control your 'cross bike,</div>
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The future is now.<br />
Actually, the future was like 5 years ago,<br />
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Dead Meadow.</div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q3xik8EZ6U" target="_blank">Sleepy Silver Door</a>.</div>
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Hey, gang. </div>
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This bike has found its way to Greg Ooley,</div>
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currently residing in Durango, Colorado. </div>
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This bike is one of those single speed-twenty niners </div>
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that seem to keep me pretty busy. </div>
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I guess I'll run through the details for those of us that just joined us.</div>
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These bikes have a chain stay length starting at about 16.5". </div>
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I've built them shorter, but they don't ride as good.</div>
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Shorter than that and they start pivoting on the rear wheel rather than carving through corners.</div>
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The shorter the stay, the less stable. That's good to a point, but when the rider's </div>
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weight is perched over the rear axle things can get spooky at speed in the rough.</div>
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The swinger dropouts that have been showing up on Black Cats for</div>
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the last 7 years have about .75" of adjustment.</div>
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Not as much adjustment as some designs but when designing them</div>
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my thinking was to keep them as small as possible to save weight</div>
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and that the shortest I want the chainstay is 16.5", </div>
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and the handling of the bike really starts suffering at 17.25". </div>
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The head tube angle changes depending on the person,</div>
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A lot of these bikes are made for a 100mm travel fork. </div>
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If so, the head angle runs at 69.5 degrees, give or take, </div>
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based on the variables listed above.</div>
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The Thunder Monkey geometry is based on a 120mm fork</div>
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and comes out slacker than that, starting at 67 degrees or so.</div>
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Turns out that the "new" "progressive" "all-mountain" "aggressive"</div>
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29ers so popular this season are about 4 years behind the curve. </div>
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Greg's is built around a 100mm fork, </div>
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and ready for the action found up in the high country. </div>
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These bikes aren't made to be hung over your mantle.</div>
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They're made for a good thrashin'.</div>
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Thanks, Greg.</div>
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Go forth and thrash. </div>
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Somewhere between Bruce Springsteen,</div>
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The Violent Femmes, and Nation of Ulysses;</div>
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somewhere between Transcendentalism</div>
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and Existentialism lies</div>
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Titus Andronicus.</div>
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Their "The Monitor" record is the real deal.</div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9SdhuECUMg" target="_blank">A More Perfect Union </a></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbm7r6XDnco" target="_blank">Four Score and Seven</a> </div>
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It goes well here.</div>
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This is a bike for Roger Cook in </div>
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San Luis Obispo, California. </div>
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Roger and I worked together at a bike shop</div>
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in San Luis about 11-12 years ago. </div>
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Right as I started building bikes. </div>
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He now has three kids and I still build bikes.</div>
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Amazing how time flies.</div>
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44mm head tube for them new fangled tapered </div>
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steerer tubes all the kids want these days. </div>
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Look close. It's a splittable belt drive dropout.</div>
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A handful of hand painted</div>
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quasi-geometric freakouts. </div>
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Well, the upper is a seat tube that takes a 30.9mm</div>
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which is what all the kids demand. The lower tube</div>
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and so I don't have to make or buy really expensive bending dies </div>
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Here at Black Cat Bicycles, we do it for the kids. </div>
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Thanks, Roger.</div>
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Those who know need no intro.</div>
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Those that don't already, probably don't care.</div>
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Ladies and gentlemen,</div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DJpZD5d9Io" target="_blank">SLEEP</a>.</div>
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Hey, gang. This bike is a slight departure from the usual in that it </div>
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It was built for Ed Furbush's shop in Prescott, Arizona, </div>
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Southwest Sounds and Cyclery. It's a bicycle shop and record store. My kind of place. </div>
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Ed and I came up with an imaginary rider of the bike and built it to his or her measurements.</div>
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by the record company looking for</div>
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the next Green Day. Actually it was the same</div>
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guy that did Dookie. The record</div>
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The music and the band's internal relationships</div>
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<i>1,2,3,4. Who's punk? What's the score? </i></div>
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I think it came out quite nice, Blog.</div>
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Tom got routing for a brake, a rear derailleur, </div>
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Lately I've been listening (again) to a lot of Superchunk.</div>
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I always really, really liked them. Still do.</div>
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A bike for Marc Schmittenberg</div>
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of Phoenix, Arizona. </div>
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Anybody who's riding a rigid fork in Arizona deserves some respect.</div>
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This ain't amateur hour.</div>
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When building these bikes, a 2.55" tire on a fat rim is used as the standard.</div>
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Marc sent me some shots of some open wheeled racecars</div>
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Thanks, Marc. </div>
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Here's a bike for John Reynolds of Birmingham, England. </div>
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John's bike was built for aggressive trail riding and a longer travel fork,</div>
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Don't even care what it means, it sounds so cool.</div>
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Top tube. Radiused and mitered. <br />
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Down tube. Gusseted and mitered.<br />
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Head tube. Turned on the lathe. Relieving the center of the tube to shave some weight, while leaving the ends thick to fight distortion and ovalizing. <br />
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Bottom bracket shell. Pf30. Seat tube and down tube mitered and fit up, ready for tacking. <br />
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Head tube. Made for the 44mm headset to accept a tapered steerer tube.<br />
top and down tubes mitered and fit up. <br />
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Seat tube and top tube. Miters must be tight to keep the joints from moving around when brazing.<br />
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Seat tube at the bb shell- tacked. <br />
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Seat tube at the bb shell- brazed. <br />
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These two pics are measuring the symmetry of the seat tube. A straight bike starts with a straight seat tube. Everything is measured relative to the bb shell. Either parallel or perpendicular.<br />
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After the seat tube is brazed and cleaned, the other tubes of the front triangle are tacked in place onto the seat tube/bb shell sub-assembly.<br />
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Once tacked, the front triangle is checked against the full size drawing of the frame. If I've done my job, it all lines up perfectly. <br />
The chainstays are then added to the front triangle and held up to the drawing to make sure they are perfect as well. <br />
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Jump ahead a bit, and the bb shell has been brazed and the flux has been soaked off. At this point nothing else will be done to this area, other than a bit of finish work, so I ream and face the bb shell.<br />
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Here's the shell, post ream and facing. When brazing or welding, the heat distorts the shell. Remember the part about how everything is built and aligned relative to the shell? I like to have a straight and flat bb shell as early on in the process to check everything against as I go. It might not be the fastest way to do it, but it insures the frame will be dead straight every time. <br />
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The "Y" shaped tool is something I made to help locate the center line of the frame. The seat tube at the bottom bracket shell is the best place to locate the center line. No matter what you do, the center of that tube at the shell is going nowhere. It can't go up or down. A good place to determine the absolute center line of the completed frame. <br />
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Here's the same tool, at the same height, at the top of the seat tube. Dead on.<br />
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Here's the same tool, at the same height, at the head tube. Dead on. <br />
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This tool is a height measuring tool. The little ball ended wand pivots and measures height in thousandths-of-an-inch increments. This is used for measuring the head tube's flatness relative to the seat tube by checking the height at both ends of the tube. This insures that the front wheel is under the rider and steering straight ahead. <br />
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After all the alignment is checked out, the head tube junctions and the top tube at the seat tube are brazed. This pic is after the flux has been soaked off.<br />
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Here's the head tube after the finish work. Smooth and shiny. <br />
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After the alignment has been rechecked, the seat stays are bent, mitered, and ready to get tacked on.<br />
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Adding the seat stays to the mix locks a lot of things down. It's very important to get it right. This fixture holds the rear axle perpendicular to the seat tube while holding the seat stays in their proper place. <br />
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Here's that center line tool again making sure the rear wheel is in the same plane as the frame.<br />
The wheel itself has a cool history. It's a custom Phil Wood hub made at 135mm, with a qr axle, for Bontrager as a check wheel when they were still making frames. The hub has super tall and wide flanges, and build with radial spokes for a wheel that's as stiff as possible. The wheel can't really be ridden, but has been integral in building thousands of frames. <br />
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Center line tool at the bottom of the wheel. Dead on<br />
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Center line tool at the top of the wheel. Dead on. <br />
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When the tacked seat stays check out as being on the money, they are brazed on. This pic is after the finish work has been done.<br />
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Alignment is re-checked. The seat stay bridge is hand mitered to fit. <br />
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The chain stay bridge is hand mitered to fit.<br />
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This fixture holds the bridge straight while being tacked in place.<br />
This tool will hold all kinds of bridges and braze-ons.<br />
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After tacking, the fixture is removed, the bridge checked for straightness, and brazed in place.<br />
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Here's the bridges brazed and finished.<br />
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The braze-ons are brazed on. <br />
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After all the braze-ons and final alignment checks, the head tube and seat tubes are reamed and prepped.<br />
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If I've done my job, not much metal comes out with the reamer.<br />
At this point, the frame is ready for powder/paint. <br />
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The bike du jour is for Tim Killen up in the Big Sky State, specifically, Whitefish.</div>
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Enve carbon fork keeping the front wheel attached.</div>
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When the fit is all figured, we'll be doing a stem to match the colors of the fork.</div>
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Replaceable hangered dropouts.</div>
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Thanks, Tim.</div>
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I was just recently in the State of Alaska riding bikes.</div>
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One of the dangers of mountain biking in Alaska is</div>
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coming up quickly on a suddenly frightened bear.</div>
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One of the ways to avoid this conflict is to make as</div>
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much a racket as possible to notify the bear you're</div>
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coming so he or she can split. My crowd decided</div>
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on singing all the pop hits of the seventies and eighties</div>
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we could think of. It worked. No grizzly sightings.</div>
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I guess the bears are as into <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLVKd1lhgOQ" target="_blank">Chicago </a>as much as I am.</div>
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*Celebrity guest photographer <a href="http://brianvernor.com/home.html" target="_blank">Brian Vernor</a>.</div>
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Thanks, Brian.</div>blackcatbicycleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05244202599366436531noreply@blogger.com5