ROLLED GOLD

new challenge

2010-01-24T07:30:00.000-08:00

what your looking at is my greatest challenge yet.
Rohloff speed hub disc 500 / 14. Mating it up to a
very nice velocity blunt 29er rim useing those dt butted spokes
and wisely chosen brass nipples. This hub is cool cause it has
all the usable gear combos of a regular 3 X 9 mtnbike drivetrain
in one small hub. Just twist the grip shift and chose between 1 for
climing or 14 for fast decending or anywhere in between. Its heavy
for sure but now no broken derailuers , hangers, or mis shifts from
cable gunk.

Joe Reinhart this bud's for you~

2010-01-11T14:17:00.000-08:00

Putting classy red nips on his cool flip flop single speed wheel.
powered by weyerbacher quad

NEW YEARS GREETINGS FOR ALL

2009-12-31T05:56:00.000-08:00

2009-11-15T18:33:00.001-08:00

remembering the sun

2009-11-13T05:23:00.000-08:00

i am missin the days of warm and green,
this rain is making me feel too seattle,
here is image of the coolest aussie i have
the pleasure to hang with- Randon Sanders

Fun with Jesse!

2009-10-22T13:08:00.000-07:00

Post ride clean up in back porch.
Took neighbor Jessee to Pennypack for a spin.
Muddy but very fun.
Who ever wants to join on thurs am's this winter
c-mon

this ride re scheduled to this sunday oct 25! 10 am

2009-09-30T16:46:00.000-07:00

new post for my minions

2009-09-22T19:21:00.000-07:00

LTNP (long time no post) What your looking at is my new trek ex9 frame and old trek ex9 parts.
Some mystery of life scored me not one but two of these new things so i figured i at least build up
one of em. Maybe you want the other one who knows- hit me up baby. Im not really excited about the new bike as much as the new pant job i can start to put my signature dents and dings in!!
Ill test it and get back to you all real soon.

TRANSITION RIDE CAMP

2009-08-13T15:52:00.000-07:00

last sat sun, mon, and tue me, rog g, and miko got to ride with the crew from transition bikes out in bellingham Wa. We had a ball and learned some stuff about the company first hand. We sell their bikes at Wheel Wright and it is a very successful program. I rode the same bike both days and really enjoyed the n.w. vibe and temps. Read the full story!

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/transition-bikes-dealers-2009.html

great company , great part of the country, great bikes, great crew.
thanks for putting us up feeding us and letting me shred the gnar.

TDF

2009-07-26T16:59:00.000-07:00

Every summer when the Tour winds down and hits the Champs I get bit bummed out. Or shall i say a touch of melancholia. Heres the thing, i barely even like road cycling or time trials or

France for that matter. I dont like the advertising, the big bike companies and big sponsors (leaky gas) nor the hype about the comeback guy from texas. What i will miss is the excitement the bike shop customers had every day when they asked if i saw 'todays stage'. The talk about who is looking good and who is thrown out cause of some banned substance ( Boonen) The two 60 year old businessmen who stopped in after their lunch next door and were raving about the

coverage this year. I hate hearing about crashes yet i was held captive listening to Mikos description of Jens Voigh high speed contact with the ground. It 30 days of bike nerd bliss smack in the middle of what always seems a busy boring summer for me here in the philly metro. I will miss it and i want to shout out to my pal Gus because the only stage i saw was in Hd on his big flat screen last night because i dont have a tv or cable at home.

Colorful lycra bike shorts and yellow jerseys..... leave em in France please.

Anniversary!

2009-07-19T05:07:00.000-07:00

4 years with wifey!
So much fun, so much hard,
so much lovin, so much still to do!
Marni your the coolest tough guy i ever went up against!
Love hubby

Mango!

2009-07-11T05:46:00.000-07:00

Publish Post

resurrection

2009-07-10T05:34:00.000-07:00

I have read or heard before that bike mechanics often have crappy
running personal bikes. Why you ask? Prob because they (I) are sick of looking at another bike when they (I) come home from a long day of working on bike repairs. They (I) also become numb to a poorly running bike , can handle the creeks and mis- shifts or poor braking performance that would drive a regular guy over the edge. So after four or five months of messing with a d.s. frame that a colleague broke for me i finally got around to getting it warrantied from the manufacturer. I have to put some more parts on it and a little gizmo that i need for it to work didnt come in the box but things are looking up! Weird, but it looks like some Asian man in the factory was chewing on the rear brake mounting bosses. Good bye old friend...Hello new puppy

p.s. i just looked in the trash can where i threw out the old frame yesterday, and someone already cherry picked it. The old sled lives on!!!!!!

new record

2009-06-10T11:31:00.000-07:00

Wow two posts in one day.

I have alot of nerve to think that someone thinks this blog is relevant and reads it.

Anyhow ive been tagged in this stupid game thing- my wife did the tagging so ill

humor her. So it goes like this 5 things that 'ALWAYS' are styling and 5 that are 'NEVER'

a good idea. Ill rename it love and hate beings that's what it comes down to.

Always and forever

1- a wallet that has conformed to the curve of a butt pant pocket

2- ballcap with any truck co. logo peterbuilt, diamond rio, Mack, Case, Kennworth good and sweat stained

3- any garment Fred Perry or Merc London

4- authentic knit rasta hat full of real dreadlocks

5- suede shoes

Not so fab

1- tight pants punk rock style hate em! hate em! hate em!

2- purses made of leather or whatever those dumb things that have little logos like coach

3- phone pods people wear in their ears that flash

4- the colorful sneaker renaissance

5- choosing wine over beer on a stinking hot day when i get done work, a glass of wine is not what im seeking mate.

tagged i guess will be Jesse Keenan

Mikes Wheels

2009-06-10T04:15:00.000-07:00

I had two choices on what to work on first, liquid or wheel.
Wheel still needs to be completed.

interior decorating

2009-05-21T08:16:00.000-07:00

The state of my living room ( n0t really a room but small bit of the down staris )
its probably not the decoration i promised marni we would be working towards when we bought this house.

good looker

2009-04-30T05:20:00.000-07:00

last wheel i did
h plus son sl42 rim
and d.a. high flange

last sunday race day

2009-04-23T05:37:00.000-07:00

first time this season setting up the team support tent
fair hill delaware mid atlantic super series
everyone had fun and did well racers included mike S,
graham S, ed L, sean K, michael S. Took Sage and she did
a great job for her first race cant wait for the French Creek
event.

yeah i do need a new bike

2009-03-05T12:45:00.000-08:00

As i am listening to the opening tracks of 'no line on the horizon'
im thinking - what is stopping me from really getting a new bike?
Actually nothing nothing at all except for dropping a few taymons.
I may blue this double out or maybe ill just add a bunch of green ,
green goes well in the woods i believe.
I am intoxicated by the idea of riding a string of trail -over hill and dale.
Watch my progress.

doubles down at V.G.

2009-02-25T04:57:00.000-08:00

I set a goal for myself.
By summers end to be able to
comfortably session this set of
doubles down at valley green.
They look so fun, but i haven't
been riding at this level for a while.
Maybe i just need a better bike?

josh b

2009-02-12T06:10:00.000-08:00

It would be nice to have a extra hand when working on aero spokes.
This hub has pretty little white ceramic balls in it.
Green is a lovely color for a front door or a shamrock.
It gives me peace that spring is around the corner,
and i hope to plant more little green things this year.

New Wheel

2009-01-09T10:14:00.000-08:00

Helping Hand

2008-12-14T07:03:00.000-08:00

This morning I was so tired from last night's bike shop party, that I needed a little extra help lacing up Bill Keller's Frankenstein wheel. In this picture, Sage is holding a nipple and helping me put it on a "needle" (spoke!).

paul, phil, bill, john

2008-11-17T13:24:00.000-08:00

PAIN IN THE BUTT WHEELSET

2008-11-13T12:01:00.000-08:00

I have been building road and mtn wheels for some

time now. Feels like my skills are refined enough to

offer a guy a wheel that 'stands up' to hard licks and i

back up the build with a handshake guarantee that if

it doesn't perform ill fix it.

Enter the carbon rim. This dt xrc330 is sexy and light

but i'm having issues. Ive become so used to how a

extruded alum rim behaves and reacts to the spoke

tensioning and now the carbon hoop is weirding me

out. Carbon fiber is resin and sheets of woven carbon

strands molded into a shape using heat and pressure.

Touted for its stiffness and damping qualities and able

to be engineered stiff in one direction elastic in another.

All this equals me not getting the wheels into a good lateral

and vertical true. My pal Gilles has ponied up the big heads

weeks and weeks ago for the wheels he plans to race 4x on

and im floundering. My blog career starts out on a low note.

Think ill pour a tall one.