I was looking over some shots Mike Davies took during the winter. pretty glad we are in Spring – even if the weather is crazy it’s good to know Summer is on the way. We had Frank’s stag party on Saturday night – it was off the chain. good times. This week some of us are going to Rarotonga for Frank and Ivy’s wedding on Friday. So we are just getting ready for Tour of Raro. A great way to kick off summer, I can’t wait to get in the sun.
From Zlog
Here is a shifty few snaps of a set of stem/bar drops I just finished welding up the other night. They are at paint now powdercoating on these suckers with a few other bits and bobs to go on the final build up of Deflux 1 which should be back from a full on paint up in the next few days.
This Bar was originally a sweet Tange cromo Soma unit I picked up from the good people at Wideopen dist., cheers Deano, then flamed and wire brushed off the paint in the weld area (hence the ends are still white). made the spec up for the angle of drop I wanted and mitred out the cromo to a short/ medium reach, put it in the vice, tacked, then straightened then welded, did the same for the stem/ steerer clamp section and then brased on the clamp and silver brased on the stainless tooth to finish it off… sounds simple eh!
The guys at Podium / DVS emailed this, a great cause www.pedaltopodium.com
Also – Jim Leatherman from Podium mentioned that they have another DVS riding shoe in the works.
Go Jay!
Even though the rain has been pretty consisten nationwide over the last month – Simon in Christchurch has been finding a way to roll steady.
It’s been way too long since I posted any decent riding shots. reason being I have had the lurgy. I don’t usually get sick, this year my annual cold turned into “ITIS”; laryngitis, bronchitis and sinusitis to be exact. It was crap. I’ve got a couple days left of antibiotics, but as of yesterday I’m feeling human again. So hopefully the weather stays good and we can have a ride one night this week.
Next week it’s Frank and Ivy’s wedding in Rarotonga. Most of the Auckland crew are going over to celebrate the big day. And we are taking bikes. So stay tuned for the Steady Rollin Tour of Raro!!
DANger is getting ready for track season and is taking it pretty seriously this season. He sold his KHS to Mike Martin and got this Dolan which is now pretty pro. Chris the Metalurgical C&C Wizard from Christchurch made the chainring.
Adam Yearsley is one of the nicest and genuine gentlemen I have ever cycled with. He’s been coming on our rides since the beginining and has a healthy obsession for all things fixed. Adam as been busy working away on his new project Gods Cogs www.godscogs.com
Basically Adam has designed a triple high flange hub to maximise torsional strength and also integrate a bolted on cog. He has been manufacturing the prototypes here in NZ and is soon going into production. Contact Adam on the website with any enquiries.
I am lucky enough to have a rear ready for me to test out and it’s getting laced right now onto a black 36 hole Dodici rim to match the black hub. I have a front hub coming from Adam in a couple of weeks too and they are going on my Avanti carbon-ator frame build. Mucho Stiffyo!Mike Lawrence will also be rocking a rear soon, we will take some photos of them built up next week.
My friend Harumi from Tokyo sent me some shots from the Courier World Champs at Odaiba. She raced in the womens section and got 16th -stoked. Good work Tatsuya san on the organisation!
