firefly bicycles/aarn: small parts [bicycle]
Firefly Bicycles are the jam. I started working with Tyler and Jamie back during their days at Independent Fabrication when we worked on a special machined seatmast attachment mechanism and custom rotary-lasercut lug package for the IF TiFLW (see post independent fabrication/aarn: tiflw seatmast clamp and styling [bicycle]). I have been behind the scenes helping them with little details since day -1, because I really believe in their abilities and have a great respect for their product (and they are great people). I helped them with the manufacturing design and sourcing for their headbadges, after id29 had put together a an incredibly good looking branding suite.
The next task that I helped them with was designing a suite of waterjet cut Ti and stainless endcaps for the seatstays and chainstays on their bicycles. They sent me the tubing sizes that they wanted to use and the cut angles and some sketches to show how their dropout would interface and I developed the geometry for four different sizes of caps and then made manufacturing drawings for them and sourced production.
I’m really proud to have been involved with these guys from the get-go and I hope to do more work with them in the future. If you haven’t checked out their work, take a look at a few of these.
