geekhouse/aarn: nahbs 2010 components [bicycle]
this was my second year working with marty from geekhouse bikes on his entries to the north american handbuilt bicycle show (nahbs). he had three entries to this year’s show, and i helped with a few items on each bike. hopefully some of the components/features become production items. it’s always nice to see something that you have worked on/designed on a bunch of bikes. the black bike shown above is the first complete bike to feature a fork dropout that i designed for/with marty (back in june 2009) to match the adjustable rear dropouts (first featured on the geekhouse 2009 entries to nahbs). this bike actually features both the front and rear custom dropouts. it was nice to see these make it onto a frame, i had almost forgotten about them. i reworked the cx headbadge, to remove the fastener mounting features, so they could be brazed on more seamlessly. this bike also has one of the stainless braze-on downtube badges that i reworked/scaled for laserbeaming.
i helped marty make a handful of different stainless badge options, which could all be brazed on, for the show. they turned out really nice.
i designed an integrated seatpost plug, based on marty’s specifications, which interfaced with the remaining hardware from a thomson seatpost. the plug was machined out of 4130 and welded into place and filed flush. joshua robot and i also designed some nifty micro lights for geekhouse, but that will have it’s own post at some point.
more pictures/press here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/geekhousebikes/
