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Gifford: Powdercoat and Details
This color is hard to photograph. I've done my best at getting an accurate portrayal in these photographs. It is a brown with a lot of red in it. The Surly Karate Monkey comes in a similar color. In this photo you can see how clean the fillets look...
Posted 28 January 2010 02:12 AM by AlexWetmore | 18 comment(s)
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Frame progress -- finished up the rear triangle
I had planned on doing this in 2 or 3 blog entries, but I'm running behind. That means you get one mega entry. The frame is pretty much done. It just needs cable routing brazeons and rear canti posts. This is what it looks like in profile: A set of...
Posted 23 November 2009 09:25 PM by AlexWetmore | 2 comment(s)
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Stainless Cycle Truck Rack
John Speare has my old Cycle Truck now (giving me room in the basement to make a new one). As part of the deal I wanted to make a new rack for that bike. The original rack is long and narrow (20" long, 16" wide) and after riding that bike a...
Posted 09 November 2009 04:34 PM by AlexWetmore | 9 comment(s)
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It's starting to look like a bicycle frame...
I brazed the front triangle of my first frame this weekend. Things went pretty well. I did have one mistake which has made a fairly minor change to the geometry. My brazing order around the downtube, seattube, bottom bracket area should have brazed the...
Posted 26 May 2009 02:06 AM by AlexWetmore | 9 comment(s)
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Seasons Speeding Tikit Porteur
I've finished my most recent round of hacking on my Bike Friday Tikit. I call it the Seasons Speeding Tikit Porteur. Seasons because that is what Bike Friday calls the Tikit with an internal hub. Speeding because that is what they call it when you...
Posted 17 April 2009 06:21 PM by AlexWetmore | 8 comment(s)
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A quiet blog doesn't mean I'm idle
A minor pre-note... I ignored the comments for a while, but I just moderated them and went and answered any questions in them. If you were waiting for an answer you should find one there now. I've been mulling over stuff to write about, but none of...
Posted 29 January 2009 01:00 AM by AlexWetmore | 5 comment(s)
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Cycle Truck Finished
I did some finish work on the Cycle Truck and sent it off to be powder coated a couple of weeks ago. It was coated by Seattle Powder Coat in Ballard. They did a nice job at a reasonable price and with a very quick turnaround. The paint is red to pay homage...
Posted 10 November 2008 04:41 AM by AlexWetmore | 26 comment(s)
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Made A Cycle Truck Rack
I had a little bonus free time on Friday so I built the rack for the Cycle Truck. It is 18 by 20 inches and made of 1/2 inch diameter cromoly tubing with a 0.035" wall thickness. The rack itself is very basic and didn't require much tricky work...
Posted 22 July 2008 09:45 PM by AlexWetmore | 6 comment(s)
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Realized
Imagined: Realized: Full photo set . Next steps -- Build it up (they knobby rear tire isn't staying) and ride it, then build a rack for it. Alistair helped me with alignment today and took a few photos too. The frame brazing is done except for a couple...
Posted 07 July 2008 03:51 AM by AlexWetmore | 7 comment(s)
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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 | 3 comment(s)
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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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Recent Projects in the Workshop
Racks Andre and Lee visited a few weeks ago to build a couple of porteur racks. They were finished a few weeks later. Andre's rack is for a 700C Kogswell P/R fork which he installed onto a Surly Long Haul Trucker. Lee built a rack for his Surly Pugsley...
Posted 11 March 2008 06:47 AM by AlexWetmore | with no comments
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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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