Specific issues, often technical, regarding bicycle design
Truss fork light mount
The light mounts are in.
I made the first few myself then sent one to Mark at Paragon Machine Works. We talked about the design and he did the rest.
The one bolt, two piece design is simple, light and clamps firmly to the fork.
The tilt is adjustable by hand if the bolt isn’t too tight.
It’s designed to […]
Rohloff equipped Jones
This is the first ‘Rohloff (or Singlespeed) frameset’ from the Merlin built batches. You can see the cable guides under the down tube. Guides are also under the left chainstay.
Actually, you can run a Rohloff hub on any Jones frameset with an eccentric bottom bracket if you don’t mind having zip ties all the […]
Titec H-bar
The Titec bar is the same width and angle as the original titanium h-bar but with some rise (and built out of aluminum). It’s (at time of writing) $95 without grips and wrap and $130 with grips and wrap installed like this.
24 inch sizing
Here are some pictures I took of a frame for someone who was asking me “how big” a 24″ bike could be. In the pictures the seat post is at the max. From the center of the bb, to the top of the seat where the sit pads are is 35.5”. The top stem is 17degx110mm […]
Truss fork
This is the Merlin built Jones truss fork. Beautifully crafted. They’re set to build the Fat Fork version too – to provide a 3.7″ front tire option.
Standard bottom bracket
Here’s the first geared only VCLS without an EBB. It’s 200grams lighter than the EBB version. If you never want to run your bike singlespeed then this would be a good option.
Twelve speed pavement
The pavement 12 speed bike build. This is a bike that I built up for road. It has 35c tires but at quite high pressure so you get speed and comfort. It’s a fun ride. It’s not the Spaceframe but it has the same fork and geometry so a spaceframe bike would build up […]
Six speed
I’ve just finished a very small batch of the XT 6 speed cassettes. I create each one from modifying stock cassettes and fit them to a King single speed hub. Here are some pictures of one on a frameset I’m building up. The new Shadow XTR derailleur is very low profile. It delivers a […]