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A little bit of progress on everything
I have nothing finished to show, but I have progress on the deck, cargo bike, and my bicycle jig. The deck is half done. We were hoping to finish it this weekend but the 90F weather kept us off of the roof. We're also waiting on 5 more boards to be...
Posted 30 June 2008 04:38 AM by AlexWetmore | 4 comment(s)
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Saturday morning by bicycle
Last Saturday was my favorite kind of Seattle Saturday morning. I left the house around 8:30 armed with a moderate sized shopping list and a bike trailer. In the next three hours I visited an interesting garage sale (noted because they listed a lathe...
Posted 27 June 2008 05:32 PM by AlexWetmore | 7 comment(s)
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Badger Lake S24O -- Spokane
I'm visiting with John Speare for a couple of days and last night we did one of his favorite S24O's out to Badger Lake. It's a great ride, with the way out having a mix of gravel and paved rail trails and old dirt/grass roads and the way back...
Posted 13 June 2008 10:47 PM by AlexWetmore | with no comments
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My new bike project -- Cargo Bike
A year or two ago I drew up this design for a 20" front, 26" rear wheeled cargo bike and posted about it on this blog. This basic design is often called a cycletruck after the classic Schwinn sold around WW2. The idea is that a smaller front...
Posted 06 June 2008 04:34 PM by AlexWetmore | 11 comment(s)
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Seattle Framebuilding Chat
(photo by Alistair Spence, from his flickr site ) A couple of weeks ago I posted a message on the framebuilders list inviting amateur and hobbyist builders to come over to my house for some beers, chips, and to talk about building bikes. Yesterday was...
Posted 25 May 2008 04:53 PM by AlexWetmore | with no comments
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Great Rack Building Sequence from Alistair Spence
Alistair just finished up this large porteur rack for his tandem and posted an extensive series of photos documenting the process. He also annotated many of them, giving a lot of hints along the way. It's recommended viewing if you are interested...
Posted 30 March 2008 02:39 PM by AlexWetmore | 2 comment(s)
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Easter 2008 Cargo Bike Ride
Perhaps my favorite series of organized bicycle rides in Seattle are the holiday-oriented Cargo Bike Rides. These were started a few years ago by Val Kleitz and have grown to be well attended with a wide variety of bikes (cargo and not). The Cargo Bike...
Posted 25 March 2008 05:31 AM by AlexWetmore | 5 comment(s)
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A new way home
I've lived in the same neighborhood for almost 10 years and have been working on the same campus for 12 years. I thought I had explored all of the good options for my bike commute home. On Tuesday I was heading towards the intersection of 140th and...
Posted 20 March 2008 04:01 PM by AlexWetmore | 6 comment(s)
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Freight Pass and Stow bag and prototype rack
One of the coolest booths for me at NAHBS 2008 was from Pass and Stow . Matt Feeney has designed a nice porteur rack that can fit on almost any fork and which has a good size platform (not huge, not tiny) and which can hold panniers too. He also worked...
Posted 06 March 2008 04:27 PM by AlexWetmore | 4 comment(s)
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Is it spring already?
I know the calendar says spring starts in about a month, but it feels like spring has already sprung in Seattle. A young sunset on tonight's ride home (the long way of course, we don't get many warm sunny days in Feb in Seattle!): The views from...
Posted 20 February 2008 03:57 AM by AlexWetmore | with no comments
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A couple of bike projects
Rory came over this morning and built the platform for a rack an upcoming bicycle. I used the lathe to make the piece of metal which the bag hooks onto. It centers the bag on the rack and is a slip fit over the 5/16" rack tubing. I like his compound...
Posted 17 February 2008 04:36 AM by AlexWetmore | with no comments
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NAHBS followup
I've posted the rest of my photos (about 25 new ones) and added annotations to almost all of them. The best way to view them is to go to the gallery and click "Journal" on the style button in the upper right. Then you can see the photos...
Posted 11 February 2008 01:53 AM by AlexWetmore | 5 comment(s)
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At NAHBS
I took the train from Seattle to Portland on Thursday. The train was fast, comfortable, and worked great with my folding bike. I wandered around Portland on Thursday (visiting the expanded Clever Cycles was a highlight) and have been at the show since...
Posted 09 February 2008 03:02 PM by AlexWetmore | 1 comment(s)
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Sheldon Brown
Many cyclists have heard that Sheldon Brown passed away this last weekend. I only met Sheldon once (at the 2004 Interbike), but he's been a constant and important part of the online cycling community for as long as I've been involved. I was getting...
Posted 04 February 2008 08:32 PM by AlexWetmore | 2 comment(s)
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Rack Building Basics -- Eyelets
It's been a long time since I've posted a Rack Building Basics entry, but I still have some in the queue. Today's photo series is about making the eyelets that connect the rack to the fork or frame. There are a couple of ways of doing this...
Posted 20 January 2008 03:07 PM by AlexWetmore | 7 comment(s)
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