Customer Feedback- "Less is More"

When a customer receives their bike and then sends you this....you know you've done good!

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[Email Title] Weak in the Knees

Dear Cody,
I am in love.
Truly,
Mary Ann

Back in shop and build, build, build

I will post some trip pics in another blog post, but a quick summary cold, wet, frozen, and fun. We are back in the shop and just cranking though builds. Here are some snapshots from the current work:

Rear end is on the drop tube mixie



Custom fork for the mixie is coming along as well





The front triangle on Antonio G's Dirty Road Bike is all welded up



Close-up on the head tube welds



Next four builds, tubes selected and seat tubes welded



It will be a busy December but we are going to work hard to see if we can get as many built up as possible. Hope ya'll had a good turkey day.

Off to Arkansas

We have made pretty good progress in the shop on several frames in November. I promise to post some photos of all in my next update. This morning Mo and I are headed to Arkansas for a four day bikepacking trip on the Ouachita and Womble trails. Thanks to Greg and Rachel at F3 designs for some sweet bags. Here is a photo of my setup.

Plenty of work in the shop to wrap October

Sorry for the delay in posts to the blog, we have been busy in the shop and I have not got a chance to get some images in a while.

First up t-shirts, hot off the presses in two new colors army green and gray!!! Get them up at Hammerhead Bike shop for $15 or shoot us and email.



29er fork for Bill to finish out his Cherry Blossom ride. A little different then our usual forks with most all of the rake in the angle of the outer miter of the top segments. We just need to cut the tops of the legs, put on all the brazed-on parts, and add the disk tab.






Next bike we are working on is a special townie which is going to have a curved top tube. Here is some shots of it in the jig and of the seat tube sleeve on it:





We also started working with some titanium and are in the process of building up three frames to test out both building with it and how it rides. Here is the front triangle of a 29er in progress:




And Finally Mo added a third set of bottle braze-ons to his 29er frame and had it powder coated with a James Bond theme:

Texas Handmade Show

We will be at the 3rd Annual Texas Handmade Bicycle Show this weekend in Austin:

http://texascustombicycleshow.ridedaltex.com/index.htm

Come on by and say hello.

Long Travel FS progress

Wow, we may have succeeded in most everything that we hoped to accomplish! The bikes are getting closer and closer to being completed. We've got the frames completed, shock installed and have tested rear wheel clearance and more.

So far it looks like we are have met our travel goals. The 2 frames get 147 and 153mm of travel respectively. The good news is there is no tire contact interference with the ST when fitted with a decent 29er wheel. we thought we were going to have to run 650b rear setup in order to get full travel and THIS IS NOT THE CASE. Next up it looks like we've received a little bonus in the fact that we have clearance for at least a double from chainring setup. In our design we planned to run these as 1x9's but it seems that we may be able to weld on direct mount front D's. We ended up with a CS length of 440mm. Not as short as I had hoped for but probably short enough.

More to come as things continue to move forward.

Long Travel FS update

For month's we've been working on this design. Its been mocked up in a CAD program and scrutinized heavily. Now the speculation is over and the fabrication has begun. There have been a few hurdles along the way but for the most part its coming along very well.

In general, our goal is to have a short-stay long-travel full suspension 29er. We want it built stout with slack angles and as much travel as practical. So far it looks like we will arrive at around 150mm of travel, 440 CS, 13.5" BB height. Our issues so far seem to be stand over height, ISCG mounts, front derailer and tire contact on the ST. Lets see how this things plays out.

Thursday, Adam (HH mechanic) and I are heading out to Angel Fire NM for the 12hr Red Bull "Final Decent" endurance DH race. Nothing like 12hrs of shuttle runs to test a new prototype design! ;)
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