Sunday, November 14, 2010
Smoked Out - Lewellyn Bikes
Below are a few shots from the shop this weekend. This will be my new road bike, mix of columbus and dedaccai tubing. The finish turned out amazing, but the build had some difficulties. I dd not pay attention to the set up of my chain stay/seat stay mitering fixture. The stays are visibly shifted to one side - very frustrating!!! I should have known better to work late and push the process - am just not that good yet.
This is a detail shot of the chain stay bridge before filing). This shot is before going back in and adding more silver the filet.
This is my first try at adding Front Derailleur braze on. This one went smoothly, but I should build a little fixture for this. I just used an old file with a bent tang to hold the braze on in place. It works, but the part could move if not carefully set up.
This is a teaser shot of my finish paint. It turned out nicely. I will get a better shot when the photo booth is set up.
Thanks for looking. Have a great day!
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Smoked Out on VelocipedSalon.com
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Enjoy!
KMO
Sunday, October 31, 2010
8 Month's!!!
Since my last post my shop has been moved out of the garage and into a much larger building (rent free for now). I completed my wife's road bike, my single speed, a road bike for my friend Azul, and a cyclocross bike for me.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Seth's Speedster and 2 new tube sets
By 10AM I was working on Seth's bike, a 2009 Scott Speedster. There was not much to do, the
bike pretty much came assembled from the factory. I needed to attach the handle bars, install the front brake, check and adjust the shifting, make sure everything was torqued to specification, inflate the tires and wipe it down.
Friday I received two frame tube sets from Nova Cycles (http://www.novacycles.com/), one set is going to be my wife's touring bike and the other is for my single speed balloon tire commuter. Today was just the unpack and check to make sure everything arrived in tact.
Sue's bike is a combination of Prestige, Nova, and Columbus tubing - the fork is an Easton EC90X. The fork is a surprise for her.
My single speed bike bike is just an off the shelf (for Nova) 29er tube set. The majority of the tubes are 8/5/8 (.8mm butts with .5mm middle sections), the Seat tube is externally butted, and the down tube is a whopping 42mm! The plan is to ovalize the ends to get a better "flow" from one tube to another - not sure how this will turn out but it will be interesting. The rear dropouts are designed by Kirk Pacenti (http://www.bikelugs.com/), they are his track drop outs with stainless faces. For this bike I will have to build a fork since there is really nothing out there with the look I want that can take a 63mm with tire. I have decided to use one of Kirk's twin plate fork crowns, it should not look too out of place on this bike - but I am not sure.
The next few weeks will be spent preparing, mitering, and brazing up these two frames. More pictures to follow.Sunday morning I will be meeting Scott at his gym to work out, so I have to sign off and get to bed.