Thanks, Man! glad we went, it did what we thought - 24" of fresh snow + 0*F this morning - workin' weather! - Garro.
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just working away - up to two more feet of snow on the way! coconino cycles custom bicycles 928 774 7747 www.coconinocycles.com: working right along Ed's frame done, Hanna's off & going. - Garro.
Early March 2011 update: coconino cycles custom bicycles 928 774 7747 www.coconinocycles.com: fork-landia - Garro.
Coconino Cycles World HQ update 3/9/11 coconino cycles custom bicycles 928 774 7747 www.coconinocycles.com: Just a quick update on the 700c bikes = Hanna, Amy, Stuart + some Verde Valley stuff...... - Garro.
Just checking in! - coconino cycles custom bicycles 928 774 7747 www.coconinocycles.com: really damn busy........... - Garro.
It doesn't get a whole lot more classic then this - me in Moab in.....87'? - Garro.
Oh crap, I had a pair of shorts in a similar colourway. I thought I had successfully blocked it from my memory, thanks.
World HQ update 1st day of spring coconino cycles custom bicycles 928 774 7747 www.coconinocycles.com: Amy's bike off & running + a day out before the storm. - Garro.
Man - just healing from Gb surgery. SORE!
Can't wait to get back to work. - Garro.
Steve, firstly, glad to hear that your surgery went well. I hope your recovery goes well.
I had a question about the mitering set up in your blog posting above. It looks like a slick solution for those of us that don't have mills with tilting heads. In this setup, are you phasing the miter by cranking the rotary table until the tube block contacts the mills table? Seems like that would work but I wanted to check with you to see if that's what's going on.
Thanks.
Alistair.
Steve, I don't think I phrased my question very clearly. I was wondering how you keep the BB miter 90 degrees out of phase with the DT/HT miter. You've got a tubing block bolted to the tube and I was wondering what you're referencing off of to get the block to turn through 90 degrees when you cut the second miter.
Don't know if that's any clearer. I hope so.
Thanks.
Alistair.
Gotcha. nope - just an angle finder. it's magnetic & stuck to the mill head. There would be more then one way to skin a cat on this, you could phase it off the bed with a square, level, protractor ect. the Paragon blocks are great for this kind of on the fly stuff, although i've done my tubes this way for years, since I got my mill. I got the system idea from Paul Sadoff. - Garro.
Steve, thanks for the reply. Makes sense now. It's a clever solution and I'd never seen anything like it before.
It's cool that you got the concept from Mr. Sadoff.
Cheers.
Alistair.
Steve,
This frame is flippin AWESOME. Lines, color, decal placement, everything. Favorite Coconino. Anything special you can tell us about it?
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Tony
Damn, Thanks, Anthony. My "cruisers" are my homage to the classic era of the balloon tired bicycle & the roles they played in the formative years of mountain biking. When I started biking there were still allot of "ballooners" "clunkers" "townies" and "shitbikes" rolling around cobbled out of old paperboy bikes, roadbike parts and motorcycle pieces. It was cool. if it didn't fit, you made one.
Also, I had a few friends with old Cook's Bros cruisers, which I lusted after, hard. The Breezers, too, and the Willets "Mounties."
I still have five Pacenti MTB crowns, maybe for an Anniversary run of cruisers?
When I get old I may just make cruisers all full-blown with my vision & lines and parts........
It's really light. < 22lbs built. All .035" & .028" in diameters from 1"-1.125" & 1.25". Classic MTB tubing sizes.
One of my passions about cruisers, which seems off-base, is that they ARE so much work - they are all straight gauge 4130 covered with grease, mill scale & cat hair which all has to be painstakingly scrubbed off, except for the HT, ST & CS's. everything else has been scrubbed, curved, bent, flattened slotted & polished right here.
I think there are more then 10 out there but less then 12. right around there.
Kawasaki green with Adam's gold topcoat. Anything else? - Garro.
I have to say that fork looks very right with that bike.
Yeah, I think the straight blade fork looks great. That's a great looking bike, with the exception of those shag nasty cranks. That's just my opinion though.
Howdy all - just some news/FYI here. I'm moving ALL my framebuilding commentary over to www.framebuilderscollective.org and it will be the ONLY place online I will comment on frame construction techniques.
It is easy to spread yourself too thin on the WWW and I think this will help me out.
I'm going to finish up the frame I'm working on & then another 700c & then I am going to do a step-by-step photo powerpoint of "how to build a fillet brazed MTB" for the FBC.
I'll still reply to "Smoked Out" questions, add to the general buzz, throw out mechanic awnsers & just generally stick around to irritate you all, but I think the FBC is the place for my F'building 1's & 0's.
A place for everything & everything in it's place. - Garro.
700x32 dirt roadster coming along coconino cycles custom bicycles 928 774 7747 www.coconinocycles.com: Amy's bike finally coming together. - Garro.
Steve
I don't think this has been asked and I've been wondering about it for some time. Why do you do your seat stays the way you do?
Larry
You must mean the MTB ones as all my road-ish bikes have straight ones.
I do it to "tune" the ride - smaller riders get lighter units, heavy riders or tourbikes with discs heavier..........like an old Bontrager MTB but curved.
But basically I think it is just a Sysyphean task self-assigned. They add tons of work, but when you see a Coconino, you know it's a Coconino.
I have worked long & hard to be a known quantity & I know that in the world of "new and improved" and "model year" this may seem an idea beyond it's time, but I feel it is not.
It took years to find my look & the associated ride quality and I'm sticking with it.
All my socks match & have for 25+yrs {wigwam rag wool, Grey, XL}
If you deal with me you know what to expect - Steve Garro.
Coconino Cycles Update 4-13-11 coconino cycles custom bicycles 928 774 7747 www.coconinocycles.com: Picking up the pieces & getting back to life as it is. - Garro.
Man - lots going on coconino cycles custom bicycles 928 774 7747 www.coconinocycles.com: "The more wonderful then you can believe it!" - Coconino World HQ update 4/24/11 - Garro.
Greatest hits played faster: coconino cycles custom bicycles 928 774 7747 www.coconinocycles.com: better pictures as promised. - Garro.
oh man.. some gorgeous work on there. love the blue one and the mint looking one.. again, those shots of AZ make me wanna go back for a trip. shoot.. even if ya didn't catch anything, it's still lovely on the eyes (and likely the soul) to be out there.
hope you're doing good! happy weekend to ya.
Thanks, RD! I appreciate the kind words regarding my work - thanks.
I am amazed how much where I live has saturated into me, I could not live anywhere else.
I am an endangered species, A guy who got to grow up in the old west. I even got to personally witness the Snake Dance - Garro.
Back at it full steam: Bikes, Flowers, Riding, Fish. coconino cycles custom bicycles 928 774 7747 www.coconinocycles.com: Long time no post / tons of things going on / here's some pics for ya. - Garro.
Coconino Cycles World HQ update: coconino cycles custom bicycles 928 774 7747 www.coconinocycles.com: A busy May. - Garro.
a bit of a shop incident.......shoved a tube under the nail - careful out there!
Don't want to get any where near you. Too dangerous! Didn't you just break your finger a couple of months ago? :blink1: