Here is my new 29er mountain bike. Fillet brazed except for one lug. The geometry is based on a surly karate monkey, but ultralight, and with a shorter effective top tube to fit me. The fork is a 50′s American cruiser style. The bottom bracket takes a bb90 (trek madone style – take any shimano, sram or truvative external bearing crankset, take the bearings out of the BB cups and press them into the frame) This is great for a 29er, becauase of the increased tire clearance on short chainstays. Also they use the most popular cranksets. BB bearings cost about $15. Very happy with this setup, expect to see me building more frames like this. My bike has clearance to use a road compact crankset. Is it a a mountain bike, or a “monster” cross bike? I do not know!
Hello, happy October. It’s raining right now but I hear saturday will be nice. I will be out riding my new fillet brazed road bike:
Built out of tange prestige tubing that was just laying around, it’s a compact road frame that fits me perfectly. Decided the green wasn’t me, though…
So I painted it “russian optical equipment” wrinkle black.
Check out the tight clearance, crimped seat tube.
Today I did some torching on Kareem’s fillet brazed 29er, using some nice oversize true temper ox platinum tubing.
Finally, here is Ragnar’s univega restoration. No, this isn’t a stock paint job, but it looks cool. I think this this came out UNREAL. Extremely well. Please bring me your restoration projects! -jesse
Finally, some cool projects getting finished! First of all, Framebuilding. Check out Micky’s new track bike.
The seatstay cutout has a reinforced sleeve to keep it stiff. Some more pics-
Ghost lettering inside the starlight purple paint!
Here I am brazing it together:
Here is the new jig I made:
Next, Lissa’s Panasonic.
Gold sparkles are where it’s at.
Finally, Will’s BBS wheels. Will did all the polishing, but I painted these black chrome and the bolts purple.
Finally, I have a sign! I was waiting a while for a vinyl sign from a printing place but I got impatient and threw up a stencil.
The next big thing for me is custom decals! Bring me your reproduction projects, or let me create some custom badges:
Yes, that’s a custom decal, clear coated with powdercoat!
What else is coming out of my oven? Spooky Bikes prototypes and race team bikes:
See ya later,
Jesse.
Hope you are enjoying spring! Good news, I have candle apple red down to a science. This is important.
I’ve been painting sweet single stage colors nonstop. Backlog of photos to post. More on this later.
Rat Rod City, USA
Coming soon: April hours, fillet brazed framebuilding projects.
Jesse, 3/25/2010
