Anthrapomorphising Metal (or) The Declining Likelihood of Procreation

I at long last put the last welds on a frame I was commissioned to build, a track bike for a local rider among the many pining for a closer velodrome to the Boston Metro Region.   Here it is photographed in front of my fantastic BBW Banner. Finished welding and did the parts fit test, all passed and ready for paint Soon enough it’ll be painted up with my branding emblazoned... Read More

BBW #28 & #29 Build Progression, Sexy Top Tube Friday

Follow The Build on FFFFFFFFFFFLickR October 22nd, 2010 BBW #28 is to be a very small road frame that as I’ve mentioned I’ve explicit instructions to make “sexy”.  Thinking about some of my experimentation with tube shaping and wrapping I thought I’d try something a little different with my sectional monostay rear end by utilizing the excess... Read More

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

Fall, words failing

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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

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

A Little Con to balance all the PRO-ness around here (or) Bicycle Catacomb

It’s a pretty unique position that I’ve found myself in this November. I’ve the responsibility to get out to public events with an enormous athletic apparatus on wheels that seems to make people really happy, somehow I’m hoping it is working out as a promotion of the best dang moving company around. I doubt I’d be getting out and racing again this fall... Read More

What could a guy who spent the daylight hours in a mortuary recommissioned as a bike shop who emerges after dark to enter the forest under the waxing moon possibly dress up as for Halloween (or) "I'm really digging how these grips dial my stance"

With a completely blank social calendar I celebrated the day of the dead in a fashion more proper for the kind of ghouls I’d seen others dressed up as then I’m entirely comfortable with. A busy week of work at the moving company forced me to shun the beautiful day outside to get cracking cutting tubes and forming up chain-stays for BBW #25 and relegated the riding... 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