Recently we’ve been splitting our time between building new bikes and finishing up projects we’ve had hanging around in the rafters for awhile.
Here is a Columbus Ultra-Foco frame that had a nasty dent in the top tube courtesy of a 50kph crash into the back of a car at the Tour De L’Abitibi stage race a few years back. Out came the old top tube and in went a new one. And we thought since we’re replacing the top tube, why not switch the head tube to 1 1/8 while we’re at it?
Hugh built a few forks this week to go with upcoming frame projects. This fork is a straight-blade cross fork with tons of mud clearance.
This frame is one of two near-identical S and S coupling equipped road frames we’re building for a couple.
The next step is to add eyelets, cable guides and shifter bosses, then some finish work, then it’s time for paint!
I posted a photo of an old Marinoni frame cut in two a few weeks back. It’s all back together now and sporting a shiny new finish and a brand new carbon fork.
We also fitted couplings to an older steel Nishiki for the same customer. Here is the before photo.
And the after photo. The couplings really look stunning once they’re all polished up.
Last but not least, we fitted a Rohloff 14 speed internal hub to a customers Litespeed Obed. The bike had horizontal dropouts that were not ideal for the Rohloff, so some we spent some time brainstorming a fix. Normally we use the Speedbone or the Monkey Bone but neither would work in this situation. The solution was to machine and weld a small titanium tab to the chainstay which allowed the use of the torsion bar seen in the picture. The back of the tab has a recess that a small nylock nut fits into.