Rear End and Braces

This week we finally got the brace tubing in stock and spent some time working on a new style rear-end for Antonio's disc gravel grinder. Here are some shots of the rear end coming together: (that is a 40 mm Cross tire in the shots with plenty of clearance)







Three 29er single-speeds that we are working on, only one of the three left to braze in the braces and then it will be time to for clean up on all three.

FINALLY!!!

Shown above is Antonio Torrini's hardtail 29er. This frame had a long embryonic period due to the fact that it spent 3 mos at 2 different painters! However, this frame came out very well done. He's been riding a Salsa Mamasita for a while and wanted to get on something custom, local and a bit more comfy. We made some slight tweaks to the Salsa geometry and away we went. Antonio left the paint scheme entirely in our hands and since he rides for the Hammerhead Bicycles racing team, and is a tight part of our riding circle, we decided to paint it "Team TF Colors". Antonio is a pretty light guy who rides smooth so we made some tweaks to the tubing selection and lightweight fab tricks and ended up with a frame that weighed in at 3.95 lbs that he can ride with confidence.

Antonio, I hope you enjoy it. Thank you for your patience.

-CJB

Winter Work 2010 and Beyond

This post is essentially a follow up post to the one with the boxes-o-tubes. Mo and Clark spent about 2 weeks straight working on quite a few frames. Some are customer frames, some are make-goods, some are NAHBS 2011 frames. All in all it has been a ton of work. We are nearing the end but not quite complete yet.

The photos below show (L to R): Antonio GG's, Luke Yantis, Travis, Matt, and NAHBS Track Frame.

So far it looks like Antonio GG's will be the first one completed. Travis's will be next. We've hit a glitch in our ability to make our curvy rear end bracing (Travis's was last one to get it right). We are making some mods to our bender and tubing and then we will move fwd with Matt and Luke's frames.

Till next time,
CJB