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🔹❄️Shiny blue things! ❄️🔹

🔹❄️Shiny blue things! ❄️🔹

A lovely sunny spin on the test bike - trying out

A lovely sunny spin on the test bike - trying out a more relaxed geometry - longer and a little slacker than what I’d normally ride.

Apologies for the reused parts and shit rattle can paint job - I’ve got something proper jazzy build coming up soon.

This bike has its cables routed into the headtube, it’s reinforced on the inside but it’s probably going to end up going for testing so it’ll be interesting to see what happens there.

Just stripped the winter road/all-road bike for bi

Just stripped the winter road/all-road bike for bits. Using everything on the new test frame.

Thanks for the LOLs MR Peacock, sorry I crashed you so much.

Looking forward to test riding the new frame.

Another spare parts bike is almost ready - built t

Another spare parts bike is almost ready - built this one last weekend. Just gave it a quick drippy rattlecan undercoat in the back garden.

It’ll end up matte black and built up with the random stuff from my everyday road bike. Will be great to test out a new geometry.

#NearlyNewBikeDayAgain

Just before the lockdown I built myself a really f

Just before the lockdown I built myself a really fancy lightweight road bike. Super fancy tubes, custom machined bits, even some tiny 3D printed parts.

It should be back from paint really soon. Got all the parts for a @tunede wheelset build... got to work out how to pay for @sramroad eTap now... Doh.

Cable ties and a 105 groupset just doesn’t feel quite right.

#SummerBike
#FancyManFancyBike
#MightNeverActuallyGetBuilt

Back in the garage today - putting a longer, more

Back in the garage today - putting a longer, more relaxed road bike together.

Bit of a test - it won’t get fancy paint and I’ll just build it up with existing bits.

Trying out a super huge @columbus_official tapered head tube for the first time.

#ShinyPipes
#AcademyTools

Another beautiful day for riding the spare parts b

I started putting together a little stem last nigh

I started putting together a little stem last night, there’s quite a bit of work and time in little bits like this.

This one is for the spare parts bike and will get the same glitter treatment as the frame ✨ 🚲 ✨

#RollitInGlitter
#FilletBrazedStem

A few photos from last month 🔥🚲🔥 Brazing

A few photos from last month 🔥🚲🔥 Brazing some little brass washers onto the dropouts.

These are brazed into a pretty jazzy bike - can’t wait to see them painted. 🎨

It’s new bike day! 🚲☀️ I’m calling this

It’s new bike day! 🚲☀️ I’m calling this one Blue Velvet.

I took it out for a spin through the woods and around some of the local gravel/mud/dust/farm roads. It’s a peach!

I know it looks like a hardtail MTB but the frame geometry is a bit more like an adventure touring bike. I’ve designed it to fulfil my gravel bike requirements and to suit my total lack off road bike handling skills.

Not bad for a bike built mostly from random old tubes and spare parts (or the cheapest bits I could find online). Happy Easter Weekend folks.

#RollitInGlitter
#MadeInTheShed

Last weekend I brazed up and painted the spare par

Last weekend I brazed up and painted the spare parts bike.

I spent a few evenings this week building it up and It’s turned out looking way fancier than I expected.

Today will be the first proper test ride - it’s a gravel/off-road/mountain/touring sort of bike so I’m heading for the woods. 🌲 🚲 ⛰

#DontFallOff
#StevieWonderGlasses

Not bad for a rattle can paint job! It’s even mo

Not bad for a rattle can paint job! It’s even more spangly in real life.

This will be the first bike that I’ve built entirely in my own little home workshop.

#GravGravGrav
#BlingBlingBling

Brazing up the spare parts bike today - with help

Brazing up the spare parts bike today - with help from Sarah’s homemade rock cakes! 🍰 🚲

Here’s a little bit of Ash’s bike during produ

Here’s a little bit of Ash’s bike during production. The gap between the fork and the headtube can be a bit gappy with certain headsets. The headset cups are also sometimes larger diameter than the headtube which doesn’t look great - see the second image.

The guys in the workshop helped me turn this one down to match the diameter of the headtube and reduce the gap between the parts.

I’ve also removed the chamfer on the bottom of the crown race for my next bike, that gap will be TINY.

#ShinyBits
#FilletBrazedBike

The spare parts bike is taking shape! Seat stays n

The spare parts bike is taking shape! Seat stays next and hopefully I’ll get some time to braze it up this weekend.

I’m really lucky to have the home workshop kitted out enough to keep making things - good old @TheBicycleAcademy and @AcademyTools.

#ShinyPipes
#YeahThatTopTubeIsASeatTube
#SoIsTheDowntube

🔥 Check out the @UnpavedPodcast 🔥 made by, a

🔥 Check out the @UnpavedPodcast 🔥 made by, and featuring some awesome people.

Can you handle my dulcet drones?! Only one way to find out. Liven up your lock-down.

#FilletBrazing
#GravGravGrav

A busy day in the home workshop yesterday! I’ve

A busy day in the home workshop yesterday! I’ve started to build a gravel/mtb bike using up some of the random old/scrapped/dented/out of spec tubes left over from the courses at work.

I also installed a oxy-propane and paste flux brazing setup, we use inline fluxers and oxy-acetylene at work so it’s a bit different but it’s still pretty good - first time using that setup.

I also installed some nice new anti-fatigue matting.

#BrokenBitsBike
#GoodTimesInTheGarage

Nice parts for the next nice bike. It’s actually

Nice parts for the next nice bike. It’s actually all built and boxed up ready to ship to the painter.

This one is for me... built it to take expensive Sram eTap groupset 💰 but now the world is upside down. Might not get built for a while, but I can wait.

I might make another cheap bike in the meantime.

Thanks for the bits Mr Millman (aka @dward_design)

#FancyBikeLife
#TheMagicMetalMillingMachine

Ash’s bike just before paint 🎨

Ash’s bike just before paint 🎨

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