El Gato Blanco

Dan Atkins of Linthicum, Maryland will be riding this here machine.

He spends some time at the Bike Doctor.

Hopefully he'll spend some time on his new bike in the woods.

The heart was Dan's idea, nice touch.

Rocket From The Crypt

is always on rotation at Black Cat World Headquaters.

That one and this one from "Circa: now!",

recorded over 15 years ago, and still as good as ever.

Little rough 'round the edges

This bike is for Mike Busch in Ventura, California.

He wanted something that was raw, maybe a little rough.

I ended up doing a wash with thinned out paint, sanded a few spots,

added some words, and clear powder coated the whole thing.

Came out pretty cool, i think.

Off With Their Heads has spent some time on the shop's speakers as of late.
Check them out.

Blood Simple

Jeff asked for blood red with a black on black panel.

We talked about maybe doing more panels on the seat tube or the stays, but it was a shame to cover up such a cool color. Kept it clean and simple.

A fork painted to match never hurt anyone.

Been in a serious Lungfish phase in the shop.

There is not much on the innerwebs about them.

This is the best i could find.

Andrew's Mariposa

It's hard to tell how good this metallic orange came out if you're not looking at it in the sun, in person.

It's really hard to capture how much time and effort goes into these frames. From the hand bent stays, to the custom cutouts, to the paint schemes, these bikes keep my hands and mind pretty occupied.

Andrew wanted sort of a hot rod aesthetic. I'll leave the motoring up to him.

If you see him around Southern California, see if you can catch up and check out that orange in the sun, in person.

Listening to The Evens alot.

Better late than never

Sorry been lagging on the blog for a while, been busy. When faced with sitting at a computer, or going and spending some quality time on a bike for someone, its almost always the bike. Right now, I guess, is the exception.

This one is for Mike Styliano in Nelson, New Zealand.

The ever popular root beer color never seems to disappoint for translating the smoothness of fillet brazing. It is a very hard color to do well in powder coat as the brown is a transparent over a silver undercoat. Any flaws in the top or bottom coat are glaringly obvious and there are not really any second chances. The depth of color is pretty hard to beat, though. Victor Sanchez, who does all my powder coating, does a bang up job with it. Thanks Victor!

No ticks were harmed in the shooting of this bike.

On the auction block

Some of you may have seen this bike in the pages of Dirt Rag magazine.

I finally pryed the bike loose from them and it is now up for sale, as a frame or complete.

The bike was built for someone 5'11", who lives on the East Coast,

For the complete review, go here.

Give me a holler if interested.

SOLD.

"And the winner is..."

This bike was built for the Interbike trade show. It hung out at the Easton/Bell Sports booth and was decked out in Easton, Fox, and WTB's finest.
On Thursday it was raffled off and given to Tim, who hails from northern Montana.

Worked out to fit him perfectly.