oh, i guess i do believe in reincarnation

i tried my hand at aluminum casting for the first time. its much less chaotic than doing an iron pour, but the outcome is just as satisfying. i made a mold for a tube bending mandrel. it has a gradual curve for doing top tubes. i decided to make 2 grooves for the size of the tubing to be used(25.4 and 28.6) instead of doing a V like in some designs.
its made almost entirely from scrap aluminum from bicycle parts. pretty cool.

delivery bicycle

so, i spent the afternoon modifying a mountain bicycle to fit this dominos pizza chest that i found in the garbage on the front. just extended the headtube and put an extra tube from the headtube to the downtube. kind of funky,but i have always wanted to build one and i thought this would be a good prototype.
then we spent the next day hanging out baking bread which i delivered to friends that evening.
thanks troy, erin, ryan, and evan.

Randonneur frame back from villin cycles

just received the rando frame from Villin Cycles in gainesville, so i had to build it up with random parts in the shop to see how it rides. it looks great even with all the mix match parts.

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.