Posts from ‘February, 2009’

Get ‘em while they’re hot! http://argonautcycles.bigcartel.com/

   
I just got this today from Fizik.  I had it custom made to match the paint scheme of Chin Chao’s road bike. A saddle and bar tape can really pull the overall aesthetic together, or make it look like a rolling pile of … well, you get the idea.  This saddle along with the blue [...]

Chin Chao’s frame is headed to Spectrum today, along with his cranks and stem to be painted to match. He’s getting an Edge 1.0 fork, which is being sent straight from Edge to the painter.  
This frame came out really well.  I think the internal cable routing will really add to the overall aesthetic, and [...]

Its the Argos!  Chris Fitzpatrick drew this a couple of weeks ago and new t-shirts should be in next week. The name of this beast?…  Fatum-Navis!  That’s latin for DOOM SHIP!   
Chin Chao’s bike is almost ready to go to paint.  I’ll be out of the shop tomorrow, so look for pics on Thursday.

Here are some pics of the internal cable routing setup on Chin’s bike. I should be able to finish up all the welding tomorrow and hopefully off to Spectrum on Monday.

I started Chin Chao’s road bike today. This will be a very race oriented road bike made with True Temper S3 down tube, head tube, top tube, and seatstays. The seat tube is a 9/6/1 externally butted tube, which allows for the omission of a seat tube collar. I’m using OX Platinum chainstays because I think they’ll [...]

Finished this bad boy on Saturday.  I was originally going to have it chrome plated, but I think it will look better painted.

My cross frame is off to the painter today with the new dropouts all polished up. They almost look too fancy to go on a cross bike… almost. I think they’d also look great brushed.  
I’m a big fan of those Columbus S-bend stays – so sexy on a fillet brazed frame. 
This will be the [...]