It's been a little while since I've done a NTF post, but here it is. A powder coating oven! This beast was a little over 2 months in the making, and it was actually a really interesting build. I've known I wanted to bring powdercoating in-house since the beginning, but I also knew it's it's …
New Tool Fridays: Bandsaw
I really like bandsaws. They're way quieter than chop saws, and don't spray dust and metal everywhere. This week's NTF is about my Harbor freight bandsaw. I bought this thing when I got tired of walking around my gigantic Carolina that took up twice as much space. The funny thing is, they have the same …
New tool Fridays: Belt sander
I started doing New tool Fridays a while back with the Buttfeeler. I haven't had a chance to continue the tradition, but I want to because I really like the idea. When I buy or make a new tool, I'll post a few pictures of it on a Friday! This Friday's new tool is a …
Eggplant
A couple weeks ago, I started work on a mountain bike for myself. I wanted to incorporate all of the beneficial new features found on today's hardtails, while still keeping some tried and true features that make a great bike. This will be the first prototype of the hardtail I will release next spring. Highlights …
Frame jig – Bench mount
After building the jig, I needed somewhere to mount the damn thing, since it weighs about 100 pounds. This part actually took quite a bit of thinking before I was ready to commit to a design. My design parameters were: -Mounted to my welding bench so that it didn't move much, but could still be …
Frame jig
I haven't posted in a while because for the last 6 weeks I was working on a pretty huge project. I decided to build a real frame jig. I built my first few bikes with the 80/20 beam style jig, and it did great for how little work it was and how much it cost. …
New bike for Hayley
Finally got a bike built up for Hayley to replace her El Mariachi. She got the deluxe True Temper tubeset, with every tube a TT tube except for the BB shell. Paragon Polydrops so she can upgrade to a rear thru axle whenever she wants. Semi-slack 69° head tube angle, and 435mm chainstays. Also a …
A new tandem: main tubes & finish
I decided to build the rear triangle first on this tandem, and while I liked it for a few reasons, I think I'll go back to the tried and true method of doing chainstays, then the main triangle(s), then finishing up with seatstays. With my new tube bender finished, the seatstays will be like icing …
A new tandem
A few weeks ago I started work on a new tandem. This one is named Nessie and will be the production mountain tandem that Myth cycles makes. A lot of thought and experimentation has led me to a geometry, set of features, and tubeset that I'm really happy with for a mountain bike tandem. One …