Got out yesterday for my first ride off-road in ages. Went down to Glentress with Fat Al, AndyJ and JJ. Remembered how unfit I am at the moment. Took my cross bike down so between the 4 of us we had 2 full suspension 26″ (Santa Cruz and Giant) one 29er single speed front suspension (Fisher Rig?) and my cross bike (rigid with 700x38s).

Bit weird but it was fun. Probably not the best bike choice from me but it gave me a pretty good excuse for riding like a doofus.

This was kinda in memory of our riding buddy Phil who passed away 3 years ago. We stopped at his bench for a while on the way up and admired the view. Wish I’d taken a camera with me.

Anyway, here’s to you Phil.

Currently playing in iTunes: Tain’s Big Ramsay by Martin Stephenson & Duncan Kennedy

Leadville Trail 100

I have been having some issues with my email server over the past few days so if you’ve recently sent me an email and not received a reply, it might be an idea to try again.

Nice 700c rando with twin plate fork crown just back from paint. Pics are a bit weird, colour is much more aquamarine but it just looks blue in the pics.

more here ….

So I f’d up. Was building a fork that should have been 1-1/8″ but built it 1″ by mistake. So now it needs a new home.

• 1″ ahead steerer
• 700c
• canti mounts
• low rider rack mounts
• mudguard and rack mounts at droupout (2)

It’s not drilled for a center/side-pull but it can be. I have the technology.

Can’t remember the atc or the offset but if you’re innerested, drop me an email and I’ll dig out the numbers.

Axle to crown 385mm, offset 52mm.

£130 + p&p including any paint.

Well, unsurprisingly, after a pretty productive week in the workshop, I came down with some kind of flu bug which kept me in bed for a few days and out of the workshop all week.

I’m pretty sure this wasn’t swine flu, bird flu or any other random animal flu. Just plain old man flu.

Feeling much better now and hopefully be able to make up some time over the weekend.

Currently playing in iTunes: What More Can I Say by Jay-Z

Been a busy time in the workshop this week. Lots of repairs, catching up on building some new fixtures, couple of forks, finished one frame and started up on another.

Currently playing in iTunes: Five Cups Of Coffee by The Jayhawks

So I just got delivery of some custom drawn 29er downtubes. There’s not much choice in 29er downtubes, they need to be long, especially for suspension (corrected) frames. I’m thinking some dimensions got lost in translation!

Currently playing in iTunes: Guilty by Kenny Roby & Neal Casal

This is a nice little video from geekhouse.

Geekhouse Movie from Geekhouse Bikes on Vimeo.

Tom came by to pick up his frame and forks last night. It’s a 29er singlespeed with sliding dropouts. The colour was RAL 8015 (Chestnut Brown). I expected this to be darker and more chocolately but it’s much more reddish than I thought. It’s really nice. I like it a lot. I’m pretty sure I’ll use this colour again.

Currently playing in iTunes: Stay by Bernard Butler