Peak into this keyhole...............

I had a problem with a frame in the past where the hole drilled at the bottom of the slit on the seat tube that is associated with the seat post collar cracked or split resulting in me needing to put a "patch" to stop the crack from spreading........so for this frame in order to head this problem off I considered using a plate to reinforce the area but after asking around on MTBR someone suggested a rack braze on. What a simple and neat solution......I love this age of information.

Beauty is in the eye............

of the beholder. To me this is beauty and says "come have fun!"

Stack of fun..............

Built some ramps and a platform for the kids in the park to play on. I built a six inch, 10 inch, and two 16 inch ramps to go with a 4X4 platform. Wish I had a dad like me when I was a kid...........

The Suicycle...........

Lots of smiles, low miles..........brought down the old trike I built a loooooooong time ago off of the wall of shame. I forgot how much fun this thing is to ride......as long as you remember to go slow.

Booger in the eye................

Ever feel like everything is boogered up?

With just enough heat.............

A propane torch is all you need to braze silver to steel............oh yeah, and some good flux too.

Too much time on my hands?

Never enough time.......

Fat Chance you'll see this anywhere else........

I had the opportunity to add brake bosses to an old mid eighties vintage Fat Chance frame. These are the frames I consider to be the standard for excellence in function and form...........and now a little Smoke life was breathed into it for many more years of joy.

Bikes are FUN!

I love this stuff.............

SAS 4.0

Time for another race in the park.........this time around I'm throwing out a challenge to any off road fixed gear nut to show what they got. It's my turf and I own it!
http://thefunpark.blogspot.com/

Sixtynine'r rising............

The chain stays came together and now the jig is up...........one HUGE consideration to keep in mind is the larger wheel up front requires that the head tube position is set up so that the front axle is 1.5" higher than the back axle.......I want to maintain a BB drop of 44mm so all this has to be set up correctly.......at least the bike will be full rigid, so I don't have to consider "sag". The SS will be (wishbone) "mono-stay" design with a sleve on the ST where the TT and SS come together.
A point to ponder..........when considering the BB drop, an imaginary line is drawn from one axle to the next. In the case of a bike with two different sized wheels this horizontal line does not go frome axle to axle rather it runs somewhere between these two points and THAT is where the BB drop should be calculted from.