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Almost ready to go.

Monday, February 1, 2010

Just under a week now and I leave for Doug Fattic’s frame building class. I’ve got most of the parts I need for the frame here. The rest are being delivered to Doug’s shop hopefully this week or next. I’m super excited to go and build my first frame. I’ve talked with Doug a few [...]

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Progress continues on new road bike

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Winter has come with a vengeance in Minnesota. Since a week before Christmas most of my cycling has been done either in Washington (holiday trip) or on a trainer. Once the whole family is back together (my wife has been out of the country for awhile) I’ll be commuting on my bike again. It will [...]

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Frame building class & a new road bike

Thursday, November 26, 2009

I’m taking a frame building class in February! I’m pretty excited and it should be a good time. I’m taking the class from Doug Fattic. My plan is to build a road go fast / all day rider kind of bike. Something with road angles, and maybe slightly longer than normal chain stays. The bike [...]

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New Project Bike

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Now that I have my Hillborne all built up its time for a new project. I picked up a Trek 720 frame and parts from a guy at work. I’m going to turn this into a camping and kid hauler bike. Maybe an xtracycle some time in the future.

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It’s Here!

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

I’ve had my Rivendell Sam Hillborne for a little over two weeks now.I built it all up in about two days. So far I’ve put a few hundred miles on it running around town, commuting to work and one camping trip. I’m quite pleased with the whole build so far. I’m starting to do more [...]

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Sam Hillborne Update

Sunday, May 10, 2009

I emailed back and forth with Jay at Rivendell last Friday about my new bike. Unfortunately I’m looking at at least another two weeks until I get it, probably more as my experience so far has been that Rivendell has trouble with estimating how long things are going to take (Note I doubt this is [...]

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Pictures from Daves Big Dummy Build

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

The bike is mostly finished now. We (Dave really) need to put the fenders on and order the rest of the xtracycle stuff. All and all I expect this to be a pretty cool bike and it was a lot of fun to build. The albatross bars are a touch I really really like. I’m [...]

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Dave’s Big Dummy

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

I posted some pictures of the Surly Big Dummy I’m putting together for my buddy Dave on flickr.  I’ll do a real post soon, but they are fun to flip through. So far, aside from some cable routing questions and a derailleur ordering mishap its going quite well. Should be a fun bike when we [...]

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Bummer

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

I just got the word that my bike is going to be a month late. Best of luck to the guys at Rivendell, I’m sure that cant do anything to make life less stressful / easier given the current economy and whatnot. Now I’ve got to come up with a new plan for spring riding… [...]

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How to build a bike wheel (Part 2, tensioning the wheel)

Sunday, March 1, 2009

This post is a continuation of my last post on how to build a bike wheel. In this post we will cover bringing the spokes up to tension and truing the wheel. To complete the instructions in this post you will need a truing stand and a spoke wrench, a flat head screw driver may [...]

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