Quadpussin’ it. You might remember Jeff from the last post – he had a finely crafted replica of his favourite frame made in titanium. Well… It turns out he was so happy with the frame that he couldn’t resist taking me up on a special offer to compliment it with Read more
As threatened – here’s part two of the post I started the other week. You might well remember that I was slipping on the lab coat and pocket protector to work out if bigger wheels and lower bottom brackets were the key to unlocking extra speed… Regarding wheel size the Read more
Mullet bike: business up front, party round the back… You might have noticed Project S.Y.D. has reached version 2.0 (you can find out more over at www.screwyoudeath.com). One of the key additions to that frame was enough clearance to run either 27.5 plus or 29’er wheels – all in the name Read more
Slack-curious? You may well have spotted that mountain bike head angles are getting slacker. Modern ‘enduro’ bikes are headed towards 65 degrees which used to be reserved for full on downhill bikes until just recently. Should you go slack in your new frame or play it safe with some less aggressive angles? Can Read more
Checking out Lance’s bike a little while ago reminded me that Paragon Machine Works are folks you should definitely know about – they’re probably the most innovative and best known US manufacturer of titanium frame parts. Famous for their sliding dropouts, that let you control chain tension on a singlespeed, they also produce Read more
As I mentioned in the previous post, here’s a quick review of the Victorian engineer’s classic ‘Bicycles & Tricycles’ by Archibald Sharp: There are two distinct elements, on the one hand you’ve got a detailed mechanical engineering textbook, and on the other, a fascinating insight into the Read more
OK, two things came together this week in a very interesting way: Firstly I’d been going through a list of peoples favourite books on bicycle design from a thread over on SingletrackWorld. I’d ordered up a copy of the most excellently titled ‘Bicycles and Tricycles: A Classic Treatise on Their Read more
Here we go, I promised myself I’d dig some numbers up to prove this… Bigger or thicker? One of the common things people do to increase the stiffness of a frame is to increase the wall thickness of the tubing, typically going up from 0.9mm to 1.2mm. Now most commercial Read more