44HQ Tactical Field Manual

Growing up, part and parcel of my childhood and early teen’s was heading over to “The Hog Pen” to see my Dad’s best friend Marshall. Marshall had refurbished an attached portion of a large family barn which actually had been a hog pen into his home. It was quite the transformation! Between the Hog Pen and the barn was Marshall’s large studio and wood shop where anything and everything was created. To say this space had an outsized impact on my youth is an understatement. Marshall always had a project going whether it was a massive spiral staircase for a client, a side project such as a boat or an ongoing sculpture, you name it… he had it going on ...

Hey there singlespeed fans! This season I made a handful of updates to my personal Marauder Ti Singlespeed and I figured I’d share them here with all of you, my humble readers. This wasn’t necessarily by design but rather as new parts and problems arose, and some of which I broke… I made updates and upgrades as needed. I’m constantly refining my personal builds each year and fine-tuning the parts spec. This all naturally gets vetted over countless hours and miles of riding and then those parts that pass my litmus test of my constant “build, ride, repeat” mantra are passed along to my clients. So all this started with the release of XTR M9120 and the two-piston brakes. I ...

So Dave’s dedicated Marauder SS is finally all finished up! With the Pandemic I’ve been experiencing some delays on components and I’ve seen a backlog of about 8 bikes slowly coming together in the assembly process. All of them waiting on just one component! So when Dave’s dropper finally arrived, I hopped to it and got his bike built up. I’ve been really jones’ing to get this one finished up. Dave picked a powder color called “racing raspberry” and I just knew this one was going to be a looker. A deep raspberry with metallic flake that just lights up in the sun. So here’s Miss September, Pinky Tuscadero, all finished up. Arthur Fonzarelli approved. Happy Days lie head for ...

When we first moved to NH in 2006, it became quite obvious to me given the giant cache of dirt roads right from the shop doors that a skinny tire road bike just wasn’t going to cut it when it came to my local terrain.  In response, the Huntsman was born.  Ironically, that first Huntsman had room for big tires.  As my road riding style and preference of terrain progressed year to year, so did the trends and availability of appropriate parts.  These days, what is available for us to play with is quite amazing.  The result has been a standard Huntsman build that typically has room for 40mm tires, 1x or 2x drivetrain option and 2-3 water bottles.  Pretty ...