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Category Archives: frame building
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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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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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
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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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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A Re-Statement of My Purpose on This Blog (or) Big Beautiful Women Coming Soon
TweetI’m afraid that in my new found enthusiasm for posting on this blog and having my thoughts, feelings, and experiences broadcast into the ether of the inter-web for the whole world to read either on purpose or accidentally happened upon … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Beautiful Women, I want to build you a bike
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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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