Here is Marco’s Extralite steel. It’s made using a Columbus Spirit TT and DT, Life CS and SS and an externally butted seatutbe. It will be paired with an Edge 1.0 fork. It’s a pure race frame with a fairly high BB and short chainstays so it will work nicely in crits. It’s going to be painted white with custom decals and will be a very clean and business like machine.

Here is another cool MTB vid. My arms get tired just watching it. I’ve got a great road bike descent for next week.

So far I’m having a great week and getting a lot done. I’ve finished Ed’s titanium frame, it’s getting blasted and ready to ship today and Matt’s frame is going to paint. Both builds are below.

Things are gong well in the shop and yesterday the phone didn’t ring much so I got a lot done. Currently I’m working on Ed’s adventure/cross frame which should ship on Thursday but when I QC’d the seat tube I found a couple small flaws I wasn’t comfortable with and didn’t have a replacement in stock. I’ve ordered a replacement and will be back on track with him tomorrow. In the mean time I thought I’d get on to Marco but his toptube was knocked off the workbench and dented so I had to order a replacement for it too. That one hurt because it’s Columbus Spirit and I had to beg my supplier to sell me one out of a set. Fotunately they did. Jeremy is up next but I still haven’t received his fork blades. For road bike forks I like to use a super nice Columbus Nivacrom uni-crown blade that I get from the UK and hopefully they will be here this week. That leaves me building  Matt E. from Boise. Matt’s getting a Custom Blend steel and I’ll build it while I wait for tubes and try to get back in sync once the tubes arrive.

Below is Ed’s frame on the fixture waiting for a new seat tube. The seat tube shown is a dummy I used to fit the other tubes. The other images are Matt’s frame of which I’ll post more tomorrow. By then it should look like a bike. Sometimes things just happened and you have to roll with it and keep things going. Fortunately I have designs complete and tubes stocked far enough out that I wasn’t caught with nothing to do although it is going to be super nice out today and a long road ride would have been nice:)

Typically I won’t be the subject of VOW but this week I’m making an exception because this interview was just done at NAHBS.  It’s an outtake from a full length video that is not yet complete but is being done for Don Walker by Marty Renwick of Vuelo Velo. You can see more outtakes at his site including interview with Nick Crumpton, Sacha White, Dario Pegoretti and others.

NAHBS Part III from Vuelo Velo on Vimeo.