Hand Made Bicycle Building

I worked on every day of this long holiday weekend. Despite this, I had time to get a little work done in the shop. No photos yet, but soon....

Well, sometimes life gets in the way of work. Anyhow, I've managed to squeeze some framebuilding in since the last post but haven't ...

It turns out that Renaissance sent me three packages via the post office. The first to arrive was the last sent. I dutifully went to the Pos...

Well, after Freddy pointed out to me that Allstate 11 isn't meant to be used in a socketed joint I asked if I could heat up the BB and p...

I'm trying to build a kiddy bike for the kids. I wanted to adjust the lower head lug and the angle between the downtube and seattube spi...

Last night I tried brazing up a downtube to a bottom bracket. I was hoping that it would be the basis for a kiddy bike. That was probably am...

Time is truly a frustration of late, it just slips away. That's really a good problem, it means work is busy and the kids won't have...

It's been since Saturday that I last touched a tube and it feels like an itch I can't scratch. It's been a busy few days, betwee...

I've been mulling over my cut apart joints, also the pictures that Suzy Jackson has shared of her cut apart bottom bracket. Silver can ...

Here you can see the nice radius on right and left but in the center there's merely a transition from the diameter of the mitered tube t...