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Monthly Archives: December 2012

  • Finishing Patrick’s Fat Bike

    Finished up Patrick’s fat bike today – all that is left is some finishing work (Face and chase bottom bracket, head tube and seat tube, trim the small stub off the top of the seat tube and drill/tap the holes for the head tube badge. Then it’s off to the powder coaters. Everything went very …

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  • Finishing Patrick’s Fat Bike

    Friday was a good day up here in the North. Finished Patrick’s seat stays on his fat bike and monday looks like i’ll put the seat stay bridge in place, braze on the small tid bits and do the final face/chase/ream to all the interfaces at the head tube, bottom bracket and seat tube. The …

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  • FATNESS

    Listen up kids: Just when you thought the trails were safe… Fat bike in the works here in the North. Wish we had some snow (egads, I can’t believe I typed that). But it seems whenever I build a fat bike, no snow. Go figure. But I digress. Today’s work was finishing and fine tuning …

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  • Patrick’s Fat Bike Build

    Things are hopping here at the shop. Been spending the mornings up at the studio placing orders, getting out quotes and tending to long term design projects. Some product some graphic design as well. Then after lunch, and a little playtime with the pup it’s down to the shop. I’ve been working on Patrick’s fat …

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  • Greetings…

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  • From the North with Love…

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  • Getting in the Spirit of the next build

    Patrick’s 29er went off to powder this morning. Ordered his fork and post along with a kit for another build previously in the build list. Was on the phone with Phil Wood, Paul Components, Quality Bicycle Components, AND Chris King. After all was said and done it was time to head out for a much …

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  • Finishing Patrick’s 29er

    Wrapped up all major work today on Patrick’s 29er. Tomorrow I’ll do all the finishing work bright and early (Went for a much needed gravel road ride at 4pm this afternoon…). On the schedule for today was finishing the seat stay welds (at the dropouts) and hand fitting/welding the seat stay bridge. Lastly was to …

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  • That was Friday… THIS is Monday and Tuesday!

    Making big strides here at 44 HQ on Patrick’s SS 29er. Got the front triangle completely welded up on Monday afternoon. Things came together nicely. Once tacked, the frame goes on the alignment beam and I check everything to see where the tubes are headed post tack. In this case, the seat tube was leaning …

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  • Patrick’s 29er looking like a bicycle

    On the agenda today was some design work first up at the studio and then head down mid day to start venting all of Patrick’s tubes, drill the water bottle boss holes on the down tube and run the internal cable routing for the rear brake. This is a dedicated singlespeed so no need to …

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