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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Worked on revising the Pricing and Fit Guides today – now that a bunch of people have used them, some questions have come up that I can use to refine/combine all of these into one document. So I’ll be updating the format / design some. No change in pricing. Just more details and hopefully a …

So Patrick’s 29er is taking shape this week. His 29er will officially be the 10th frame to come out of the newly christened 44 Bikes Metal Shop. We’re officially in the double digits. Exciting stuff. Was prepping a bunch of things before the parts from Paragon arrived like bending chainstays and prepping seat tubes for …