okay...lets give this one a try.

do you have what jim-bob might refer to as a "practicality fetish"?

are you sick of juvi-kyle running you over when you're on your hipster track bike?

lets see it.

Love it.

spiffy, what's the setup on the hub.

fantastic thread; long overdue.





and of course

crust&crumb, its as though you peered straight into my heart.

my crosscheck is on IRO 135mm spaced "offroad" hubs

i was considering some of the IRO 130mm hubs for the pompino. it's either those or on-one's hubs, which i can't seem to find outside of the UK. i guess i could always spring for levels or phil kiss-offs. so long as it's fixed/fixed. how are the IROs?

that looks just like the area I grew up in.

i grew up in spokane and visited sandpoint on occasion. great little place, really it is.

they've been zero maintenance. i rode them on a long tour, singletrack, commuting...everything. still smooth as day one. my only complaint is that the front is a QR.

Ah I grew up in Marin county, CA. Birthplace of the Mountain bike.

you cant change the QR out?

juvi-kyle, do you have pics of the latest incarnation of your kelly yet?

i really wish i could have landed one of the 1" framesets, damnit anyway.

can, just haven't. laziness.

Oh **** ya.

oh, hey, you know what i just remembered? according to the last email i got from the list, 700see should be ready to mail on the 25th, which is today, isn't it? can't wait for that to arrive.

i wonder if/when we'll get word about matt's NAHBS showpieces. it seems like most builders brought out something special. i'd really love to see what he had planned.

hadn't even though of it, but man, yeah...

The Fixed Cow Path Runner

i need some new pics. swapping out bianchi hubs for iro this week, other stuff in the works.

My Kelly is done, I will try and take pics tomorrow. Lets just say Campag carbon levers really set it off and it came out to only 19 pounds.

edit: Matt Chester was the only person I was super excited to meet and shoot the **** with. His bikes ****in kill.

edit edit: I forgot I really wanted to meet Chris Kelly in person, great man.

edit edit edit: You asked for it...

Less edits, more pics.

just kidding...

Okay, props for that spastic action shot though.

Cross bike is gonna be my newest build. I'm going with gears though since I'm building it to be my summer bike for when I'm home in Hood River (small town, lots of hills, insane wind, live on a 1/2 mile dirt road at the top of a hill, etc.)

30 pages of fun making?