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Category Archives: Thinking about bikes

Dropout shaping

Friday, October 1, 2010

The new bike I’m building is a single speed with an eccentric bottom bracket. I’ve got a pretty bad taste in my mouth from horizontal dropouts, and I’d rather avoid them if possible. I figure I’ll give this eccentric bottom bracket thing a shot and see what all the fuss is. The advantage of the [...]

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Cross bike done, lets start another

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

I’ve got the cross bike done, rides nice. Minimal hiccups along the way. Building the bike all alone in my basement led to different challenges than I had when I built with Doug. Most of those revolved around not having access to all the nice jigs and tooling. In some areas I made my own [...]

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On Weights and Measures

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Weight isn’t something I get really worked up about, but I thought it would be fun to see how much the frame I built weighs, along with some other frames and bikes I have at the house. So I borrowed a scale from my buddy Dan and then dorked out New Frame: 4lbs 2 oz. [...]

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Doug Fattic’s Class: Day 1

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Today was the first day of my time at Doug Fattic’s two week frame building class. Today was from what I can tell the most uneventful day as far as building, but interesting in terms of the history we learned and some of the things we learned about fitting. I’m a bit of an odd [...]

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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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Sackville Saddlesack Large Review

Friday, October 23, 2009

I’ve been running around with a Large Sackille Saddlesack on my Hillborne for about six months now (serial number 41). I’ve got almost no complaints. The Good: Its fricken huge, like cavernous, this bag will eat other bags, and then more. I’ve been able to do our regular grocery run, a weeks worth of food [...]

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3 months with my Sam Hillborne

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

So I’ve had the bike for awhile now. I’ve put about 2000ish miles on it so far. The bulk of that has been around town to and from work or the grocery store. I also did RAGBRAI, which about 450 miles over a week. Over all I’m pretty happy. I’m still working out the kinks [...]

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Big dummy on a trunk rack

Monday, July 27, 2009

I had been wondering for awhile if we could fit Dave’s Big Dummy on a trunk rack. For RAGBRAI we were going to have to figure something out. We were able to make it work without too much trouble. The rack we used was a Saris Bones Trunk Rackon a 2007 Nissan Altima. Dave and [...]

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Bike shipping sooner than expected

Thursday, March 26, 2009

I just got an email from Rivendell that my Sam Hillborne will be shipping between April 13th and 18th. I’m super excited, hopefully since I just ordered a frame it will get here sooner than later and I’ll have it for the MN Ironman ride.

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