We just finished a great build for our friend Andres that started back in July. Andres wanted a custom locally made frame and after checking out all the amazing local builders decided on an Igleheart. Andres and I went up to Chris Iglehearts shop in Wenham MA in late July for a fitting and to discuss the details of the frame.
Andres and Chris talking in the shop
Chris used to work for Fat City Cycles and still has a lot of mementos from those days, he is even still using Fat City Team Grease!
Of course his shop has a well worked Bridgeport
And there are frame building parts everywhere, you can imagine the amount you would accumulate in 30 years of frame building.
Andres on the fit bike, getting those dimensions just right.
After Chris finished the frame it was time to decide on paint. Andres decided on Ferrari red and we had it painted up locally by our pro painter Chris Rowe. Back in Superb we accumulated all the parts Andres decided on for the build and got ready to put it all together. This build consisted of Paul Components Cranks, hubs and brake lever, VO rims, pedals, cages, and seatpost, Brooks Saddle, Bar tape, and toe straps, Chris King Headset, 3ttt stem, Soma Bars, EAI superstar cog, and Panaracer tires.
Frameset, notice the detail on the rear bridge
And the finished build. We didn’t complete it until 6pm last night and with no natural light we had to use a bike headlight to get some photos.
We just finished a great custom build for Rebecca. This is an amazing locally built Igleheart made exclusively for Superb. Rebecca chose the paint color and it was applied over at Sugarcoat in Allston. Our mechanic Tom handbuilt the Phil Wood to Velocity wheels. Other build highlights include Chris King headset, Nitto stem, seatpost and handlebars, San Marco Rolls saddle, IRD cranks, Paul brake lever, and Continental Gatorskin tires. Rebecca was pretty stoked when she came to pick it up. She is heading to Edinburgh next week and is taking it with her.
I finally made it down south for the second half of day 1 of the North American Handmade Bicycle Show. We hit some pretty crazy snow/rain/wind on the way down, but apparently made it through before it got really bad. We lost about a half hour due to the weather but the Geekhouse bus mobile lost over 2 hours. That aside it was a pretty easy trip. My road trip tip number one: download a mp3 book for the journey. On this trip we are listening to Jules Verne’s “The Mysterious Island” and other than the fact that we are on chapter 20 and this Island is yet to be very mysterious, it is quite an interesting read (or listen), especially if you like entire chapters dedicated to how to make nitroglycerin. But I digress, I was talking about NAHBS right? The show is amazing, the amount of talent jammed into one room is almost too much to take in. It is very easy to be overwhelmed with all the amazing bikes on display and all the best builders just hanging out ready to chat it up. Well lets get to the photos, that is what you wanted to see anyway right?
First up from Boston, one of Mike Flanigan’s Bikes from ANT. His stuff was looking really good, I am gonna try to get more shots tomorrow, his booth was busy, but I did notice he had custom Pedal’s with “ANT” cut out of them
Chris Igleheart also of Boston, had a nice selection including this very nice, stainless 29er MTB frame. If you look closely you can see the stainless caps on the top of the fork legs. We have some Igleheart track/singlespeed frames in the shop, priced significantly under the price of a full custom, stop by and check them out!
Ian of Icarus was around, mainly at the geekhouse booth, but making trips back to the bike check room to show off his new bike. This seattubeless pursuit bike was downright amazing and I could easily say it was way nicer than a lot of the bikes actually in the show room.
Speaking of the geekhouse booth, here it is. My new bike is sitting pretty in the middle (more on that later) with Matt’s Cross bike to the right and Bianca’s Touring bike to the left. The bikes were getting a lot of attention, I hope you are ready for the increase in sales Marty!
Better shot of Bianca Touring Bike. This bike will be touring the US in a matter of months, follow Bianca and Greg’s Journey HERE
A collection of Lugs from the Richard Sachs booth, his bikes look the same as they always do (that’s a good thing).
I was really into all of the Villin Bikes. The lug work and paint job on every single one was amazing.
This Yipsan was nice, I am a sucker for internal cable routing.
Vanilla’s Bikes were nice as usual, and their booth was at least 4 times bigger than the others. They really took the presentation to the next level.
This Cherubim was insane, all the way to the saddle custom made from two steel rails. I’m not sure how comfortable that would be though.
I spotted these 1 finger leather gloves at the CCP booth, they were quite interesting, would anybody wear these?
Well I am heading back to the show for day 2, hopefully grabbing more photos and meeting more people.
