paint job from villin

here are a couple of photos of one of my frames getting painted by Villin Cycles in Gainesville Florida. they are focusing more on painting bicycles. im super excited about it since up till now ive been getting all my bikes powder coated.
ill have more pictures up when its complete.

post number 2 for the day

i have not been posting for a while, so i figure that i better post this stuff now before i forget.
Pete asked me if i would donate a frame for first female finisher in the Fixed Fight alleycat race.
Lex over at Villin cycles agreed to do the paint jobs, which is going to be really awesome.
Elizabeth Morse-Hill won the frame



and i also decided to build some integrated stem/riser bars with a built in brass crane bell. should have gotten a nice picture of them first

for the long haul

jason contacted me from alaska and he made it. rode all the way from chile on the bicycle frame that i built him. thats 12,000 of rough riding. he said that the frame was great until he got up to alaska and the disc brake mount ripped completely off. he is shipping the frame down to me to be repaired, ill probably replace the drop outs with THESE hopefully his bike will then last another cross continental trip.
check out the carnage

here are some photos from his trip.


my beautiful headbadge covered in muck and snow.

photos

i know i have not been posting anything lately. thats because i dont have anything built right now. ill have new stuff up soon though. last weekend i went to BikeBike southeast, a conference for bicycle coops in atlanta. it was great, met some awesome people, then on the last day my friend Matt Miller took pictures of me and my tattoo that Danielle did on my left arm.

travis' track bike

here is his track frame all built up with a new fork and custom stem bar combo.

i started building stems recently, here are two that i just got back from getting powder coated. i modified the crane bells so that they can be attached to a water bottle braze on.

eriks new bicycle

its my first fillet brazed frame. came out pretty well, its good to see what the fillets come out looking like when painted. we will have build photos once the parts come in.