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Category Archives: custom
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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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
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Tagged BBW List
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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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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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Get Busy Filing or Get Busy Dying (or) The Build List
TweetActually, there were options on my plate this past weekend besides getting my shop organized & cutting some tubes for the growing backlog of Budd Bike Works frames on order or facing the reaper, namely racing. Though, it would have been grossly … Continue reading
Thanks Mom, Thanks Dad
TweetIts almost embarrassing how much my folks have given me throughout my childhood, through my prolonged adolescence (my generation pushed back the definition to 26 years old in this country), and continuing into my fits and starts at adulthood. Love, … Continue reading
Posted in BBW lab, custom, cyclocross, frame building, photography, tig welded, Uncategorized
Tagged BBW #24, horizontal dropout, new camera, Your Grandchild is a bike frame
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Racing
TweetI never did get out on my planned friday cross ride and instead spent the afternoon in the basement with a box of fresh parts to get a bike in order for the season ahead. That done it’s going to … Continue reading
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Tagged racing
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The Pain of Success
TweetTh e debilitating leg cramp that just coursed up my left hamstring and threatened to turn into the dreaded double by cramping the quadricepts or calf as well as I stretched it are as sure evidence as any that BBW … Continue reading
Posted in BBW lab, custom, cyclocross, frame building, Middlesex Fells, mountain biking, New Bike, ping pong, steel, tig welded, Uncategorized
Tagged BBW, cyclocross, Middlesex Fells, Mountain Bike, test ride
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