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  • Snakedriver Design and Development

    I’ve been building custom bicycles for a bit more than a decade now. Hard to imagine 10 years have gone by but here I am! When I first started out, there was so many variables to overcome to obtain a level of proficiency I could then master. I came to the bench with a level …

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  • Snakedriver by the Numbers

    I’ve been working on the Snakedriver project since 2019.  5 years of R&D and 4 prototypes have brought me to this current iteration.  After an evening of assembly, tuning and triple checking my work during the build process, I took V4 of the Snakedriver on its first shake down ride.  I couldn’t be more pleased.  …

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  • New Road

    I’ve been playing with the fit and handling on my Huntsman now for a while. I never really liked that traditional stretched out feeling on a road bike and really took to frames that were smaller than what I was “supposed” to be riding. A case in point was back in 1998/99 when I was …

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  • Snakedriver V3 Development

    Back in July, I penned the following: “V2 of the Snakedriver is currently at powder. It’s been a long road to get to V2 with a delay happening last season that most likely was the best thing that could have happened for the project. It forced me to reassess the overall project and the literal …

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  • Progression

    July 4th, 2012 I threw a leg over the first Marauder prototype and instantly knew I was on to something fun. 10 years later, countless prototypes, many rides under my belt, and I’m still at it, nose to the trail refining the Marauder. This latest iteration is a lesson in progression and radically different from …

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  • Huntsman Reimagined

    Have I got a story for you, my humble readers. No, I’ve not been writing for a good while, but that’s another story and I’ll explain in a separate post. So back in early 2020 I delivered a bike to a client out in San Francisco. Ron was stoked and immediately started putting a lot …

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  • Marauder Ti UTE

    As a kid, I was a Boyscout. I was a member of East Greenville Troop 108 and my friends and I in the Apache Patrol raised hell every month on our troop hikes and campouts. You see, our troop was a bit special in the fact that we had a very dedicated scoutmaster, Karl “Moose” …

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  • Terrene Johnny 5 & Wazia 4.6 First Impressions

    Over the past 3 winter seasons, the weather here in NH has been getting more and more unpredictable. We’ll have drastic temperature swings overnight. Snow will turn to rain, then to freezing rain and back to snow. Huge melts which leaves terrain coated with ice. Then snow. Then rain, etc. Basically, our winters have been …

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  • Marauder Ti FAT

    Every year I try and build a new prototype to test new geometry out on the trail and try out new set up tweaks. This past season, I built a new mountain bike that totally had my mountain bike world turned on its head. I immediately went back to the drawing board and slugged it …

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  • 25 Years of Going Forward

    It was 1985 or 1986 and my best bud and I were headed to the Upper Perk Pool to play a little session of Home-Run-Derby followed by a dip in the pool. However, we had to head to Kuhn’s Drug Store before heading to the little league diamond. We needed some big league chew as …

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