Curvy Rear-end

Everyone loves a curvy rear-end. Stays are in place so let the brazing commence. I can't wait to see what this thing weighs. I don't think titanium will be any lighter.

Pain Party!

Yep, you guessed it, cyclocross season is just a handful of weeks away and I know some people already "chompin at the bits" to get on the starting line. This is the start up of a new cross frame for Eric, a California based cross racer. This is gonna be a tight package built with OX Platinum on the main triangle and for clearance we are using some S-bend chain and seat stays. The down tube is a super-light 31.8mm and is as light as an S3 down tube. With an effective 52cm top tube and a 50cm seat tube this may be the lightest cross frame that I have ever built, we'll just have to wait and see what the scales say. Anyway, this is a pure, straight-forward cross racer, nothing extra hanging on that could slow him down. Build it strong, build it light, build it right! Stay tuned for more.

First International Order

Here is a frame I am finishing up for Chihiro, a Japanese road racer. This was my first international order so I was pretty stoked to be building it for him. Its a pretty straight-forward road racing frame built with OX Platinum tubing and a wishbone seatstay. It also contains an integrated head tube and one of my integrated seatposts made by local Mountain Home machinist Bob Davis. Chihiro decided to go rock-solid and get the matching steel fork as well. This thing has crit racing written all over it. Check out that white Avocet O2 Ti racing saddle, where can you buy one of those? Is that a red one also? My butt has been sitting on an O2 for 20 years. I have 7 of them in all different flavors and I am hoping thats enough to last me the rest of my life, they are getting harder and harder to find. Anyway, a MEECH will be on top of Mount Fuji before too long. Stay tuned for the paint job. Chao.

MEECHcross Ready!

This is Brad's 'cross bike after Doug and friends from Poppa Wheelies Bike Shop in Russellville, AR got done with the build. If it rides as good as it looks then we can say mission accomplished. Thanks for all the help from everyone on this. Brad, Poppa Wheelies, Bob Davis Machining, Ace's Wild Custom, Edge Composites, and a couple of others helped make this one come together. Good job everyone!

Berryman's Custom Carbon CX'er

I finally got Brad's frame finished and back from paint and it was totally worth the wait. Paul from Ace's Wild Custom knocked out a killer paint scheme just winging it from a couple of ideas by Brad and the clearcoat over the carbon tubes makes them look like black glass in the sunlight. Check out that hint of red on the tips of the tribal flames. Oh dude, this thing is just my size too. Its sitting in the spare room and occassionally I find myself drooling over it like a hound dog in a meat market. If you go back to some older posts where I was building this thing you know that it started out as a complete steel frame and when I took the hacksaw to it there was no turning back. This thing is a dream come true for me as a builder because its the style of frame that I first imagined building but it took me quite a while to get the necessary experience. Anyway, I can't wait for Brad to get it built up and give me the low-down on how it rides and feels. Along with the custom paint scheme we have an integrated-style headtube with an FSA Cross specific headset, Edge Composites cross fork, Paul Taylor Carbon Cross seatstay, handmade integrated seatpost done by my good friend Bob Davis with the rear brake cable running through the seat tube, and even the triple-stop on the top tube is custom. I hope to be riding one similar this fall. Cross season is just around the corner. Pain Party!

El Chava

I finally got me a road bike built. We painted it in Hot Rod Black. It hits the scales at 17.3 lbs right now but I still have a couple of cards to play before its totally done. I was shooting to be in the 16s but I think that bronze head badge put me over. Oh well, its worth it.

Handmade in the USA

Here is an older frame that never got painted so I just threw some custom decals on and a little clearcoat. I plan on taking it to a show soon just to show some of the craftsmanship.

Long Time Coming

During all the 7 long years that Armstrong was winning the Tour I just wanted to see how he would handle losing just once and this photo tells it all. I can't wait for it to start this year.

Kingshead

Here are some photos of Craig's bike all finished up. I love it.

Pace Yourself Fabian

I noticed the other day in the Tour de Suisse prologue that Cancellara looked a little chubby, didn't matter, he still won, but just barely beat my man Roman Krueziger by one second. In racing, if you win it doesn't matter what you look like, unless your Levi Leipheimer, hes not much on the eyes. It would be cool if a little fat boy won the Tour some day, maybe someone like Randall from the movie American Flyers. Just think, people all over the world would be cheering for the fat kid to win. Phil Ligget would be commentating, "Step aside Alberto, theres a new sheriff in town, Randall is gonna be wearing yellow tonight. Go ahead and spill some mustard on it Randall, its not gonna show on the maillot jaune." Its coming!