The Dario Pegoretti movie D’Acciaio (Of Steel) by Ben Ingham is screened today only for free on the Rapha website. An interesting movie about an iconic, if opinionated, framebuilder in the Old World mold.
Posts Tagged ‘frame building’
Texas Custom Bicycle Show looking for volunteers
Yesterday, I posted about the Texas Custom Bicycle Show coming to Austin October 16-17. The show is a lot of fun and a chance to see some well made, unique bikes built right here in Texas. The show is free and the product of a lot of hard work by the builders. To that end, [...]
A Series of Tubes: Final buildup on Marcus Rando Light Touring Bike
“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden,Violet Crown Cycles Earlier this month, I wrote about the randonneur bicycle, a French style light touring bike, I designed and built for Marcus. It came back from powder coating a few weeks ago, and I built it up [...]
A Series of Tubes: Marcus’ Randonneur Bike, Details, Details, Details
“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden, Violet Crown Cycles To followup on my initial post in this series on frame building, I wanted to share some of the work and challenges that went into designing a randonneuring bike for Marcus, my co-editor. The frame [...]
A Series of Tubes: The latest Ma Ferguson step through city bike
“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden, Violet Crown Cycles On Friday, I dropped off my latest custom city bike to the customer. She choose the Ma Ferguson, the step through “woman’s” style to replace a her recumbent. She had gotten the recumbent for comfort [...]
A Series of Tubes: Articles on the Art and Science of Framebuilding
“They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, [...]
