The business of Framebuilding is not an easy one. Its incredibly demanding in the sense you need three essential skillsets: Business and marketing acumen, practical applied design and fabrication skills and financial resources. If you’re missing any of those three, the uphill road that is framebuilding gets exponentially steeper. Experience occurs over the course of …
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The Business of Framebuilding
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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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Trespassing
I’m sure we’ve all had our brushes with the law. A recent article I read about a bikepacking trip in California left me scratching my head a bit. I get it: Sometimes, you get to where you’re going and are met by a gate with a NO TRESPASSING sign. You’re out in the middle of nowhere. …
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Fruits of Labor
This past winter, I decided to build a new Marauder prototype to try out a few new to me concepts. Most important of these concepts was a short stem/long top tube with a slack front end. I was curious about what effect wheelbase played when it came to handling. During that same time span, I …
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