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 Design and Development
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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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Electrification
Editors Note: The above image is purely a visual for size and technology comparison. It is not meant to compare old vs new nor is it a Shimano vs SRAM comparison. The GX AXS rear derailleur is actually my personal piece of kit for bike packing excursions to quickly convert my singlespeed to a geared …
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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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Geometry
When I built my first bike, I pretty much didn’t have much of an understanding of geometry, handling and what made both click. I basically plucked a few numbers based on riding experience up to that point and then slowly, over many iterations, a lot of trial and error, riding, building and repeating, things started …
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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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Every Day Carry
Some followers on my IG account were asking me about what I carry every ride. Some call this an “Every Day Carry” or EDC but rather, this may be my ERC aka “Every Ride Carry”. Regardless of acronyms, I’ve been riding for over 30 years and chances are I’ve either tried it, asked the same …
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Snakedriver FS Prototype
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 …
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