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Monthly Archives: October 2010
BBW #28 & #29 Build Progression, Sexy Top Tube Friday
Tweet Follow The Build on FFFFFFFFFFFLickR October 22nd, 2010 BBW #28 is to be a very small road frame that as I’ve mentioned I’ve explicit instructions to make “sexy”. Thinking about some of my experimentation with tube shaping and wrapping … Continue reading
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BBW #28 & #29 Build Progression
Tweet Follow The Build on FFFFFFFFFFFLickR Living in a bike building hot bed like Boston sometimes has some serious advantages. Got a great jump on meeting my self imposed deadline on BBWs #28 and #29 with some help from the … Continue reading
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Here You go, Have some More, Worthless Dropout
Tweet Don't ask me if it is worth it to add 8 hand fabricated pieces to the super high quality dropouts I buy from the good folks at Paragon Machine Works. It makes the rear end behave as though the … Continue reading
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Time or Money
Don’t ask me if it is worth it to add 8 hand fabricated pieces to the super high quality dropouts I buy from the good folks at Paragon Machine Works. It makes the rear end behave as though the axles were effectively wider, makes a huge stout interface with the chain and seat stays and when asked for gives a discrete mounting point for rack and fender hard ware.
One day I’ll grow up and have parts like this machined so I can save a couple of hours labor. Tomorrow these get cleaned up and welded. If I am lucky I can get a pile of tubes mitered up and fit into the jig as well. Clock is Ticking. Continue reading
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Surpassed by the Upstarts (or) Corners aren’t for Shaking Hands
TweetI bought a secondhand cyclo-cross bike at the Trexlertown bike swap in 2002 and raced it the very next weekend. I’d raced road and mountain bikes the previous two years while I was in college and was pretty well immersed … Continue reading
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2010 to be a Banner Year Despite all Earlier Indications
TweetSure I only sold a hand full of frames to just cover the cost of my manufacturers liability insurance, have been left in the lurch by the ladies, and continue to work at menial labor to make the ends meet. … Continue reading
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ping.fm testing 123
TweetFor Facebook… Please ignore, this is only temporary. and so is this…. and this. and this.
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Would’a Could’a Should’a Weased but the Video Coverage almost makes me feel as if I’d been there.
TweetThe odds were favorable enough that another opportunity for physical hardship would present itself again in the next few weeks that I opted to sit down and get some drawing done while I had some momentum with it rather than … Continue reading
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Budd Bike Work’s October Update. BBW’s no.28 & no.29 on the Table, 17 days to my 32nd year. Three and a half weeks to Halloween and Philadelphia Bike Expo. Getting Busy Bike People
TweetDesign Draft Approved on no. 29, and tubes and dropouts and assorted bits are ready for cleaning and marking and checking and marking and checking and marking and forgetting what it was you were supposed to be doing and eating … Continue reading
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A tractor trailer trip from charm city with not a minutes delay at the GW bridge, new chainrings and a commuter train, a kings feast, a fine bed and the sound of harbor bells, sunrise over the edge of massachusetts and more splendid spoils, seeing a friend aproach sandbagger status within his first ten races on his BBW, power terds, 3 cups of coffee and an acid buffer energy drink, a waitlisted last row start, a 2nd lap flat, no 8spd cogs in neutral support(the mavic nine speed wheel was still better than the one i have) clickity clack back into the pack passing and having fun the whole time, seeing familiar faces in the midst of the highest caliber competition next and capping it off with more fine fare at the sunset puts Gloucester CX 2010 in the books. Always one of the more memorable weekends of my year, my thanks go out to essex county velo for putting on another great event at stage fort park and to all the competitors that came & had a good time racing their bikes, those that came to drink beer and shout or to just silently witness the spectacle, to the parents of two year olds on like bikes, to the industry that makes a product that is this much fun, to those that came out and provided us food and beverage the whole weekend. It is way more than an hour long race, I am glad it happens.
TweetScored some Craft water proof knickers that worked great for this morning’s wet windy commute as well. Afraid I may have to be looking into having a frame fendered up before too long, my toes were cold this monday.
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Comments Off on A tractor trailer trip from charm city with not a minutes delay at the GW bridge, new chainrings and a commuter train, a kings feast, a fine bed and the sound of harbor bells, sunrise over the edge of massachusetts and more splendid spoils, seeing a friend aproach sandbagger status within his first ten races on his BBW, power terds, 3 cups of coffee and an acid buffer energy drink, a waitlisted last row start, a 2nd lap flat, no 8spd cogs in neutral support(the mavic nine speed wheel was still better than the one i have) clickity clack back into the pack passing and having fun the whole time, seeing familiar faces in the midst of the highest caliber competition next and capping it off with more fine fare at the sunset puts Gloucester CX 2010 in the books. Always one of the more memorable weekends of my year, my thanks go out to essex county velo for putting on another great event at stage fort park and to all the competitors that came & had a good time racing their bikes, those that came to drink beer and shout or to just silently witness the spectacle, to the parents of two year olds on like bikes, to the industry that makes a product that is this much fun, to those that came out and provided us food and beverage the whole weekend. It is way more than an hour long race, I am glad it happens.
