Budd Bike Work’s October Update. BBW’s no.28 & no.29 on the Table, 17 days to my 32nd year. Three and a half weeks to Halloween and Philadelphia Bike Expo. Getting Busy Bike People
Design Draft Approved on no. 29, and tubes and dropouts and assorted bits are ready for cleaning and marking and checking and marking and checking and marking and forgetting what it was you were supposed to be doing and eating and clamping and checking and moving cutting and checking and drilling and cleaning and welding and tweaking and checking and welding and checking and eating... Read More
August News Letter e-mail heist
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Build-a-Bamboo-Bicycle/ Yeah, I’ve seen a bunch of these around and came across it in the NY times today, you can gorilla wrap a resined carbon or natural fiber string around the joints a bunch, vacuum bag it, and cure. Lign up the metal inserts at the head tube,bottom bracket, seat pin and dropouts then go to town on it. Neat, but I... Read More
Shifting (or) The Shimano Conspiracy
Once upon a time there was a company called Suntour, they were a Japanese component manufacturer that competed with but never quite got the market share of their neighbor, the big S. Their high end componentry was beautiful, precise, and in almost all cases simple. The name still exists out there in the bike world but has never meant the same thing since the time of their demise... Read More
Duo-tone (or) Stopping by the neighbors to borrow some sugar
So the stories of some of the bikes listed on my last post is not quite complete. #13, my after hours built cross stead had gotten an emergency top tube replacement after I’d revealed a not repeated design flaw riding it in the woods a day before my first race on it at suckerbrook this September. The true temper S3 top tube remained raw through the season with occasional... Read More
Get Busy Filing or Get Busy Dying (or) The Build List
Actually, there were options on my plate this past weekend besides getting my shop organized & cutting some tubes for the growing backlog of Budd Bike Works frames on order or facing the reaper, namely racing. Though, it would have been grossly irresponsible to ignore the clutter of tools and tubes on my bench that are demanding to be turned into proper performance bike... Read More
Thanks Mom, Thanks Dad
Its almost embarrassing how much my folks have given me throughout my childhood, through my prolonged adolescence (my generation pushed back the definition to 26 years old in this country), and continuing into my fits and starts at adulthood. Love, support, health, and an education were all great but right now I am most psyched about this camera that I got a little early for my... Read More
Racing
I never did get out on my planned friday cross ride and instead spent the afternoon in the basement with a box of fresh parts to get a bike in order for the season ahead. That done it’s going to take a good bit of effort to get the body to work to the same level as the machine but it should be enjoyable enough with plenty of good folks to ride with now and a new trail bike... Read More
Labor of Love
getting caffinated and carbohydrated to take a test ride on the personal off road frame that I just finally finished after over a month in the jig and the drawing board. I can’t wait to get some pics that actually show any of the features that I’ve been working so hard on like. Eccentric BB for riding geared, single or fixed without finagling with the disc brakes or... Read More
Paint Delivery Quandry-Quashed
After a good time at Lars Anderson’s bike show and swap meet last Sunday I had to get down to business prepping some bikes for paint. Stripping the parts off of the really big bike, the really small bike (that I can be seen here trackstanding) and the average american male sized cross bikes both needed to be stripped of parts and paint, #3 in for repair needed some final... Read More
