Irons in the fire (or) Precision is a c@#$
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Triple Crown Fork and Kittens in the cieling
Seasons Greetings from Budd Bike Works. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } Read More
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
Cyclo Cross Disc Brake Discussion This Morning
German Guy:Hi List, Just a brief update on the recent semiheated debate concerning an upcoming change of paradigm in cyclocross racing: The racing season has started here in Europe, and I have yet to see a single (!) racer with disc-brakes. Cheers, M. Budd:The component manufacturers still haven’t caught up, as soon as a disc system is available that doesn’t carry a... 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
2010 to be a Banner Year Despite all Earlier Indications
Sure I only sold a hand full of frames to just cover the cost of my manufacturers liability insurance, have been left in the lurch by the ladies, and continue to work at menial labor to make the ends meet. With the Philly Bike Expo in a couple weeks I’ll have to salvage the rest of the year to make it live up to the Banner my brother Josh at Budd Designs whipped up for me. ... Read More
Would’a Could’a Should’a Weased but the Video Coverage almost makes me feel as if I’d been there.
The odds were favorable enough that another opportunity for physical hardship would present itself again in the next few weeks that I opted to sit down and get some drawing done while I had some momentum with it rather than hustle home faster from my errands in the deluge to beat the traffic from town west in time to get a ride out to the night weasels race in sherborn, mass on... Read More
