Check this out: 16.75″ Chainstays with the help of a shaped seat tube, room for 2.5+ tires, massive standover, and angles suited to picking your line in the New England tech. Can’t wait for this one to be done. 29″ for the wheels, ‘F’ for flaired stays, and the ‘1’ stands for one shaped tube. …

44 26f Another view – mean and clean. Here’s a rare sight… 2 44’s side by side. You’ll notice something about 44’s: No graphics with the exception of two badges. One on the seat tube and of course one on the headtube. Why? Why not. Flat black is to hotrods as no graphics are to …

From the front Another view… Wet Black Powder is juicy.. build pics to follow. Someones going to be stoked this weekend.

So I think I’m just going to start calling bikes by their wheelsizes. A additional letter will denote a special quality about them. So say a 44 29er with straight seat curves would be referred to as a 44 29s. A 44 26 with a flaired seat tubes would be a 44 26f. Makes it …

New badge art.. Stoked on bike badges.

Finished the seatstays, and brazed up all the jewelry. 71/73 for tight singletrack handling, 15.9″ stays, 12″ bottom bracket height, loads of standover and lots of tire clearance. Ready to go to paint later this week. Gloss black with stainless badges as always..

Since I can’t be there, I decided the next best thing would be to build bikes instead of show them. Here’s a taste.

14″ frame in the works for my wife Lynn. 26″ hoops on this one. Lots of standover naturally. Chainstays look to be coming in at 16 pinned. Using some Paragon Wright dropouts for this build. Digging the nice big flanges on them. More to come this friday.. gettin’ shit done for her upcoming birthday. Build …

Precisely. Keep it at 44.

Working on a catalog PDF of the first 44 Prototype with ride notes, construction and more.  Stay Tuned.  In other news I’m also putting together a marketing piece for Ted that will be really way of displaying all his capabilities to potential customers.  In the meantime, check out his offerings.  More to come this friday …