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Christine's New Bike
Christine has been taking more of an interest in riding her own bike recently (normally we just ride the tandem together). Yesterday she also accepted a job which is a short bike ride away on the Burke-Gilman trail. I had extensive plans for modifying...
Posted 12 March 2010 01:31 AM by AlexWetmore | 17 comment(s)
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A late spring ride in the middle of February
There aren't many days in the middle of Seattle's winter when it is sunny and approaching 60. We've had 4 of them in a row, starting with my birthday on Feb 18th. I've been doing my best to make use of all of them. Today Andre, Rory, Jimmy...
Posted 22 February 2010 05:29 AM by AlexWetmore | 2 comment(s)
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Metric Bolt Kit
I find it handy to have a variety of metric stainless bolts around when assembling bicycles. My kit is running a little light and some other friends wanted similar ones, so we put together a bulk order from McMaster Carr . I thought I'd document the...
Posted 20 January 2010 05:46 AM by AlexWetmore | 6 comment(s)
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Gifford
The TODO list is getting short, and got short enough for me to build it up for some shakedown rides. Remaining on the list: Wire guides for the headlight Racks (this one is borrowed from my RB-T) Paint A couple of small details. This is how I routed the...
Posted 17 December 2009 05:10 PM by AlexWetmore | 26 comment(s)
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Fork and Canti Bosses
I'm down to the home stretch on this frame and expect to be riding it in a couple of days (unpainted of course...that will come after some shakedown miles). On Friday I built a fork using my new fork fixture: It has 60mm of offset, which will give...
Posted 13 December 2009 05:27 PM by AlexWetmore | 5 comment(s)
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Fork Fixture
The next step in building my new bike is making a fork. To make a fork I needed a fork fixture. I built this one using 80/20 extrusion and a few simple machined pieces. The design was influenced by two sources. Mike Flannigan (ANT Bike) posted this photo...
Posted 10 December 2009 05:03 PM by AlexWetmore | 10 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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20" Surly Big Dummy Frame and Fork looking for a good home
A little backstory. If you don't care then skip to the end. About 10 years ago I built this internal gear hubbed commuter bike with a chaincase and generator light (I know the generator light is missing from the photo, but trust me that the bike had...
Posted 22 November 2009 04:46 PM by AlexWetmore | 4 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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Chainstay Alignment
The next step in building my frame is attaching the seatstays. Before doing that I needed to make sure that the chainstays were properly aligned. It will be much more difficult to correct axle alignment issues once my seatstays are attached to the frame...
Posted 05 November 2009 04:56 PM by AlexWetmore | 2 comment(s)
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Frame progress
Administravia first: A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the Ibex Vim jacket . I actually raved mostly about the Dash Hybrid, which is an awesome jacket. I thought that the Vim would be very similar, but I've been using one for a couple of weeks...
Posted 29 October 2009 04:25 PM by AlexWetmore | 9 comment(s)
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Car/Bike Camping on the Suiattle River
Scott organized this point83 trip to the Suiattle River. Until 3 years ago there was a car accessible road that followed the river and went up to three National Forest Campgrounds, tons of hiking trails, and lots of great old growth forest. The 2006 wind...
Posted 22 June 2009 06:39 PM by AlexWetmore | 8 comment(s)
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Lennox Creek S24O
Andre, Andrew, Lee, Rory, Scott and I met around 5:30 on Friday at the start of the North Fork Road outside of North Bend. The plan was to repeat our previous trip up the North Fork of the Snoqualmie River, but to use a little extra time to dive deeper...
Posted 14 June 2009 04:11 PM by AlexWetmore | 12 comment(s)
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SABMA Meeting #4 notes
About a year ago Alistair Spence and I proposed starting a local group of hobbyist and professional framebuilders to meet once in a while and discuss projects, techniques, whatever. Alistair came up with the name SABMA (Seattle Area Bicycle Manufacturer's...
Posted 08 June 2009 04:04 PM by AlexWetmore | 1 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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