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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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  • My Marauder Ti SS

    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 …

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  • Pink Marauder Singlespeed

    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 …

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  • Huntsman SuperTrail Prototype

    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 …

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  • Laywire 101

    Back in 1995, when I was a Sophomore at Penn State University, I was across the street from the Jewelery Departments studio spaces in the Arts and Architecture building’s shop space. Well outfitted woodshop dovetailed to a metal shop. Over on the metal shop side, I noticed a big Miller TIG Welder. When we all …

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  • Tack Sequence

    Over the years I’ve been asked about my weld sequence.  I’ve been asked it enough times and I’ve written it enough times that I think it’s about time I make it permanent here, in ink, on the 44HQ Blog.  Apologies for the radio silence for some time.  With all that’s been going on, I’ve honestly …

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  • 1UP Quik Rack in Review

    The first rack I ever had was a Yakima roof rack. Mounted up on my old aqua Honda Accord! (Also my first car…) You know the kind: Trays, towers, clips to adapt to your car. I was working at Nestor’s Full Cycle bike shop in 1998-99 in Quakertown, PA. Every year, they had their annual …

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