June 2012

Summer Solstice 2012

By Jeff|June 29th, 2012|

It’s an annual thing for me. The longest day, and really quite a sweet one too. I rode up and over the mountain and found a good spot for the night. The night sky was clear and full of stars. I saw a few meteors and many satellites. I found a good level spot up […]

Bicycling elective class at school

By Jeff|June 13th, 2012|

There was a bike riding elective at the school so we volunteered to help.
Before each ride we meet to go over the rules of the road and how to be safer out there…

Then there was learning to ride around obstacles in the bike lane…

A bridge over Bear Creek…

Riding past the pear orchards…

We stopped to […]

Magazine Review Bike

By Jeff|June 8th, 2012|

Outside magazine asked me for a bike to review a few months ago. This is the bike I sent.

I shipped it with a fat and a 29″ front wheel and a set of fat road tires.

Built with XTR

King rear hub

Jones front hub

They are finished with the bike now and will be sending it back to me soon. I look […]

Steel Spaceframe bike with XTR and two wheel sets

By Jeff|June 7th, 2012|

This is Jason’s second Jones bike. This one is for road or dirt. And the first few photos show my bar-wrapping techniques. Might seem a minor point to make next to all the wheel, hub and frame detail shots but all the details make the bike…

May 2012

Spring Thaw race in Ashland

By Jeff|May 28th, 2012|

We loaded up the bus and went to Ashland for the Spring Thaw  kids race and downhill this past weekend. We all had fun.

I ended up pinching my rear tube in rocks near the start which left me with a flat tire by the time I got to the last few turns and final […]

A ride in Spain

By Jeff|May 24th, 2012|

It looks like James had a nice ride in Spain.

Here’s his photo set on Flickr.

“The steel Jones is incredible when loaded up, it shouts at rocks to get out of the damn way and when they don’t listen it plows through them anyway. None of the rocks actually did move, so it probably speaks […]

Spaceframe bags are in

By Jeff|May 23rd, 2012|

They fit both the titanium and steel version. There is a single wide compartment
on the right side and a single thin compartment on the left.

Made by Porcelain Rocket

Truss fork headsets

By Jeff|May 15th, 2012|

In the years since this post was first published, the headsets that are available for the Truss fork have changed.  There is no longer a Cane Creek headset that is made specifically for Truss forks, but there are many that are adaptable to Truss forks using the plastic compression ring mentioned below.  As a […]

Frame bags

By Jeff|May 1st, 2012|

Scott has been working on the new Spaceframe and Diamond frame bags. They should be ready in about a week.

April 2012

Kim’s bike

By Jeff|April 30th, 2012|

 

This is Kim’s single speed bike. It’s been built with an XT rear hub so that she can add gears later…