Stoked on these next two builds: 29er dirt road ramblers. Basically mountain bikes.. but setup to do primarily dirt roads. There’s just so mach dirt around here that these make a lot of sense. That and i prefer dirt to pavement, so its that much better.

These should be here later this week..

A ride for the books..

I have the very fortunate opportunity to build bikes once a week beside Ted Wojcik. This is the Cincinnati Horizontal milling machine that does all the maintube mitering. It is a beast of a machine. The story goes that Ted won it at auction for next to nothing many years ago. If it didn’t sell, …

TEST RIDES from BLACKCAPstudio on Vimeo. The best part of building them means you get to ride them…I ride solo most of the time, hence the odd angles.

This ones on the alignment table and lookin’ pretty good with minimal cold setting to be done. In the process of making myself a new dirt road rambler. We’ve got a HUGE network of dirt roads in our neck of the woods, and being that I absolutely love to have dirt between me and the …

44 TIG Welding Action from BLACKCAPstudio on Vimeo. Chainstay / Bottom Bracket Weldment. Need to get the good camera to the shop…

44 TIG Welding Action from BLACKCAPstudio on Vimeo. Chainstay Sub-Assembly Welding…

..ready to be formed.

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