I don’t have a muscle car background so I was unfamiliar with the 70s Dodge color called Plum Crazy. Colors appear much flashier on car panels than on bike tubes though. So this color combined with the classic Nervex lug shape remind me a lot of Jack Taylor’s early building style with their later “flamboyant” […]
This bike was collaboration between Ryan and myself. This was the third (!) bike that I’ve built for him. You’d think that this would expedite the process but that is not the case as I found out as custom is custom and this will always make the build take longer. Ryan is a very knowledgeable […]
Marc is one of those riders for whom a custom bicycle is the best option. At 67cm, this bike is at the maximum of what I am capable of building in my fixture. I’ve worked with Marc on other projects over the years and he is a pleasure to build for. He came to me […]
A funny story about Jon, he went to my website when he heard about me and saw that I was located in Pawtuxet Village which is a small village along Narragansett Bay in Cranston, RI. Rhode Island a small state and this village is even smaller. Come to find out, Jon grew up here. When […]
No, you’re not seeing double or triple. Yes, this is another dark green city bike but there are so many differences. It is the sister bike to Huw’s city bike which resides in London. This is for one of his friends, Graham, who lives stateside. The fact that there are two very similar looking bikes […]
My wife, Hilary, and I have been riding a Jack Taylor tandem for the past 5 years. We got it off of Craigslist because it sort of fit us and it was a fun novelty. It turns out that we actually work really well together on a tandem so that got me thinking about building […]
Fall is definitely my busy season for building bikes. Lots of shows and lots of deadlines. Mark was going to be traveling to one of those shows earlier this month so that was my deadline. I had ironed out a lot of the details with him over email so the build went relatively quick. On […]
Sometimes a bike is defined by the components that are on it. The Rohloff Speedhub is one of those components. The bike needs to be designed around it and that’s why a lot of Rohloff rear hubs are on custom frames. There are several different variations on the Rohloff hub and we decided to get […]
I don’t get a lot of requests for road bikes but oh, how I love to build them. And even more so if the person definitely needs a custom frame. And especially so if the person I’m building for is one of the nicest people on the planet. In this day and age niceness is […]
Evan’s light touring bike
August 6, 2016
This was the first bike I had finished since the birth of my son, Tully. I was concerned about being able to focus on the bikes while adjusting to the new family life. The fact that my shop is in my backyard and that sending email via the phone is the new norm helped immensely. […]