Hampsten / Tournesol

[Ken Robb]

Strada Bianca by Moots w/YBB (why be beat?) rear end and Alpha Q. cross fork. Paul Cantis, 9 spd Campy, 50-34 Ritchey crank.

[redturbo]

I posted this before but I'll put it here for prosperity.

[Blue Jays]

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Somebody stole the HAMPSTEN decals off that bike!

[redturbo]

you mean these ones

[Blue Jays]

Nice! Gotta' love that cool cinghiale!

[yashkatsumi]

[Blue Jays]

/\/\ That is a fantastic M.P.!

[lavi]

Dig the Pig! Mud Pig that is. Looks super fantanstic.

When I grow up, I want to work as a super domestique for Cinghiale Tours.

[yashkatsumi]

I too love the MudPig. I have owned it for about two years now but the bike has only seen about 20 rides since it was my primary racing bike and I train on my B-bike.

Lately I have put some fenders and some super fat tires and have been riding this all over the slushy suburbs of Boston.

The white is almost like a Clearasil white. It is this beautiful pearlescent white, and the new Moderne decals are sooo nice!

[hampco]

yash, welcome aboard - good to see you and your white bike. we're building a new Pig for a customer here in the shop, similar to yours but with curvy seat stays and a shaped top tube for easier carrying. probably shoot it for the website, gotta remember to ask the customer if we can paint his fork.

what bars are on that bike?

[Blue Jays]

Are newest flavors of the venerable Mud Pig constructed in aluminum, CF, steel, or titanium...or does one choose the material?
Curious minds gotta' know!

[yashkatsumi]

Hello everyone. Many familiar names here, I hope everyone is doing well. I just discovered this forum yesterday, and it has taken up all of my free time.

The MudPig frameset is made from a very thin and light steel tubing. I actually am not sure which tubing set it is, but I believe it is Reynolds 853. Initially I was thinking of going Aluminum (or Alumni as some dude at the bike shop calls it) but after discussing my use of this machine with Steve, I decided to go with steel. I am very very happy with the way this frame came out. For once in my life, I wanted to get a race-only cross frame, so this frame has no rack mounts, nor bottle mounting holes. After a couple of years of racing this frame, I hope to send it back to have some bottle mounts drilled on it, and resprayed and make it into the ultimate Tournesol like bike.

If I were more eloquent, I could better describe the floating sensation I feel when I race with tubular tires under the MudPig.

[hampco]

Are newest flavors of the venerable Mud Pig constructed in aluminum, CF, steel, or titanium...or does one choose the material?
Curious minds gotta' know!

we're starting to narrow the focus a little bit around here, mud pig is a good case in point: only offering steel or titanium; the steel frames we build in my shop here; the titanium comes from kent e. i want to be able to spec every tube used rather than piggy-backing on an existing builder's model. kent has extensive cross experience as does max/333fab, the guy doing my in-house welding.

nothing against aluminum or carbon for 'cross, they just don't fit my plans for this year.

[Shinomaster]

[QUOTE

If I were more eloquent, I could better describe the floating sensation I feel when I race with tubular tires under the MudPig.[/QUOTE]

Sounds like Heaven!

[SeanEasley]

There weren't very many bikes at the show this year that I would want to own, exactly as they were presented down to the last detail. This was one of them.

If I was able to find room for it in my life right now I would simply take this picture to Steve and say, "This. Make me this."

[Blue Jays]

I'll never tire of cool fendered bikes! In which booth was that one displayed?

[Auk]

With the Indy Fab booth.

[happycampyer]

There weren't very many bikes at the show this year that I would want to own, exactly as they were presented down to the last detail. This was one of them.

If I was able to find room for it in my life right now I would simply take this picture to Steve and say, "This. Make me this."

Hey, that's DarrenCT's bike!

[soBRIquet]

Hey, that's DarrenCT's bike!

Correct. Send me a $100 bucks, and I'll give you the address where it can be found. Why wait to have a new one built? ;-)

[happycampyer]

I heard that it went home with Steve. Anyway, I have this one, which is pretty similar... I was waiting to take better pics before posting them here.