Wrapped up all major work today on Patrick’s 29er. Tomorrow I’ll do all the finishing work bright and early (Went for a much needed gravel road ride at 4pm this afternoon…). On the schedule for today was finishing the seat stay welds (at the dropouts) and hand fitting/welding the seat stay bridge. Lastly was to …

Making big strides here at 44 HQ on Patrick’s SS 29er. Got the front triangle completely welded up on Monday afternoon. Things came together nicely. Once tacked, the frame goes on the alignment beam and I check everything to see where the tubes are headed post tack. In this case, the seat tube was leaning …

On the agenda today was some design work first up at the studio and then head down mid day to start venting all of Patrick’s tubes, drill the water bottle boss holes on the down tube and run the internal cable routing for the rear brake. This is a dedicated singlespeed so no need to …

Worked on revising the Pricing and Fit Guides today – now that a bunch of people have used them, some questions have come up that I can use to refine/combine all of these into one document. So I’ll be updating the format / design some. No change in pricing. Just more details and hopefully a …

So Patrick’s 29er is taking shape this week. His 29er will officially be the 10th frame to come out of the newly christened 44 Bikes Metal Shop. We’re officially in the double digits. Exciting stuff. Was prepping a bunch of things before the parts from Paragon arrived like bending chainstays and prepping seat tubes for …

Better late than never. Was working on this off and on throughout the year and spent the morning knocking out the last page which I had been meaning to do for some time. Get your copy here.

I’ve been really busy on top of building bikes with making new tooling and adapting my existing tooling to accept back purge for welding titanium and stainless. I put together this new head tube heat sync for the new 44mm head tube standard: First welds with the new heat sync: Also a favorite drawer with …

Howdy Partners. Been busy in the shop with bike construction, new tooling and up in the studio flexing those design muscles. Joe’s 29er is finished and arrived back from powder safe and sound. Here’s some shots of his SS / 1×10 which will be heading out to Arizona once our Fox fork comes in from …

Shop is busy kids. Finishing one headed to the great state of MA. Next up will be a 29er headed to the great COUNTRY of Switzerland… more on that adventure. We’re international. Officially. Can’t wait to start that build in the coming days… Welding the HECK out of that, originally uploaded by 44 Bikes.

Earthquakes and Hurricanes… You can’t stop me! Back at it now that power is back. More soon kids… DSC_5975, originally uploaded by 44 Bikes.