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Category Archives: BBW lab
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
Posted in BBW lab, custom, frame building, photography, Uncategorized
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Shifting (or) The Shimano Conspiracy
TweetOnce upon a time there was a company called Suntour, they were a Japanese component manufacturer that competed with but never quite got the market share of their neighbor, the big S. Their high end componentry was beautiful, precise, and … Continue reading
Posted in BBW lab, custom, cyclocross
Tagged Luddite Revolt, Shimano Conspiracy, Suntour, Yakuza
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A Long Winded Invitation (or) An exhaustive accounting from an elephant like memory
TweetThere may come a day that Budd Bike Works will have grown to the degree that to keep up with demand I’ll be producing them in numbers that won’t allow me to remember the intricacies of each individual one. I … Continue reading
Posted in BBW lab, custom, frame building
Tagged BBW List
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Out the Door
TweetMy customer stopped by to pick up BBW #27 last night and drop off the check that will pay my manufacturers liability insurance to keep this little endeavor going another year. It feels good to see someone excited to get … Continue reading
A month of Sundays
TweetFebruary is incredibly slow in the moving business and the little I’m bringing in through my labor of love handbuilding frames, the work I have to do on the old funeral homestead/shop for my landlord, and a sale of a … Continue reading
Posted in BBW lab, custom, cyclocross, frame building, New Bike, Taxes
Tagged BBW lab, Build Process, Eccentric Bottom Bracket, Girls Bikes, Nude Bikes
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Black on Black
TweetI was initially pretty bummed when sponsored BBW rider Ben Frank insisted upon flat black as the color for his much delayed by the painter Cross Bike. Finally getting it in hand after 2 months, a rejection, and a re-coat … Continue reading
Posted in BBW lab, cyclocross, Graphic Design, New Bike, racing, Uncategorized
Tagged single speed, Utility Cyclo Crpss
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A Little Con to balance all the PRO-ness around here (or) Bicycle Catacomb
TweetIt’s a pretty unique position that I’ve found myself in this November. I’ve the responsibility to get out to public events with an enormous athletic apparatus on wheels that seems to make people really happy, somehow I’m hoping it is … Continue reading
Its only kids you’ll see swimming at the beach when the waters cold (or) The Speed Stairs at Norhampton (or) I’d like to build you a joy machine
TweetAre they impervious to the shock of the water robbing the heat straight from the bones that I feel as instantaneous pain stimulus that has me and the rest of the sane (?) mature population booking it back up to … Continue reading
Posted in BBW lab, cyclocross, racing, Speed Stairs, Uncategorized
Tagged Cycle-Smart International, Cyclo-Cross at Northampton
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What could a guy who spent the daylight hours in a mortuary recommissioned as a bike shop who emerges after dark to enter the forest under the waxing moon possibly dress up as for Halloween (or) “I’m really digging how these grips dial my stance”
TweetWith a completely blank social calendar I celebrated the day of the dead in a fashion more proper for the kind of ghouls I’d seen others dressed up as then I’m entirely comfortable with. A busy week of work at … Continue reading
Posted in BBW lab, big bike, frame building, Middlesex Fells, mountain biking, Night Riding, Uncategorized
Tagged Halloween Ride, Naked Runner, pagan bacchanal
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What’s cooking at Budd Bike Works? Smells Delicious
TweetThe last step before I can do any welding once all the tubes mitered tight for a fresh, baked to order frame is to get them scrubbed clean inside and out. Getting them to dry a little faster in the … Continue reading
Posted in BBW lab, custom, cyclocross, New Bike, steel, tig welded
Tagged Fresh Baked Bicycle Frames
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