Each year for as many years as I can recall (going on close to 10 if I’m a counting man), I’ve brought an assortment of bicycles to the Philly Bike Expo. What I bring to the show typically highlights what I build: A hardtail mountain bike named the Marauder and a gravel road rig dubbed …
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Philly Bike Expo 2025
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Dedicated Singlespeed
I gotta say it: I love singlespeeds. There’s just something about how darn simple they are that just tickles my fancy: Everything you need and not a single ounce more than you don’t to ride! I’ve built hardtails for myself that could take gears, but when I’m honest with myself… I’ve got a geared bike …
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Research and Development
Recently I’ve been working with Spencer Thomson, a lead engineer at EOS North America who is a producer to 3D metal printers. Spencer reached out this past summer with a cold email essentially asking if they printed parts for me, would I like to work with them to try and speed up development of SLM …
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Snakedriver Design and Development
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 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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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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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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Marauder Ti UTE
As a kid, I was a Boyscout. I was a member of East Greenville Troop 108 and my friends and I in the Apache Patrol raised hell every month on our troop hikes and campouts. You see, our troop was a bit special in the fact that we had a very dedicated scoutmaster, Karl “Moose” …
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