Thanks to Scott, Greg, Mike and Jenn in the frame shop and Patrick, David and Birger in the pain(t) shop we sent 11, count ‘em ELEVEN bikes out the door this week including:
3 to England
2 to Japan
1 to Germany
1 to Singapore
1 to Ohio
1 to Cali
1 to Jersey
and shit, someone that lives here in Portland even came and picked up a bike (thanks Josh).
Between our pain(t) shop and our frame shop, there are currently 7 of us. What happens here other than building and painting bikes? Our domestic side? Here are our stats:
TRANSPORTATION:
rode bike: 4 (18.5 round trip miles)
drove: 2
CONSUMED:
beverages:
cups of coffee: 8
cups of tea:4
other: 0
food:
bought lunch: 5 (everyone ate burritos at Cha-Cha-Cha! and then promptly finished off a bag of Newman O’s)
brown bagged it: 1
RECENTLY OVERHEARD:
“I just want ice cream to be ice cream” – Patrick
LISTENED TO:
“Coming Back to A Man” – DAWES
“Home” – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
“Bringing Sexy Back” – Justin Timberlake
HOURS SPENT:
Metal fabrication: 10
Painting: 23
Administration: 38
Working with customers: 1
Between our pain(t) shop and our frame shop, there are currently 7 of us. What happens here other than building and painting bikes? Our domestic side? Here are our stats:
TRANSPORTATION:
rode bike: 4 (30 round trip miles)
drove: 2
CONSUMED:
beverages:
cups of coffee: 6
cups of tea:5
other: 0
food:
bought lunch: 2
brown bagged it: 3
LISTENED TO:
NPR
“Southern Cross” – Crosby Still Nash & Young
“Midnight City” – M83
HOURS SPENT:
Metal fabrication: 10
Painting: 24
Administration: 9
Between our pain(t) shop and our frame shop, there are currently 7 of us. What happens here other than building and painting bikes? Our domestic side? Here are our stats:
TRANSPORTATION:
rode bike with dog: 1 (2.5 round trip miles)
rode bike without dog: 5 (44 round trip miles)
drove: 1
CONSUMED:
beverages:
cups of coffee: 10
cups of tea:4
other: 0
food:
bought lunch: 3
brown bagged it: 4
RECENTLY OVERHEARD:
“My neighbor lady sees me in my underwear every morning….” – Greg
LISTENED TO:
“Midnight in Paris” soundtrack
Flying Burrito Brothers
HOURS SPENT:
Metal fabrication: 10
Painting: 21.5
Administration: 9
Between our pain(t) shop and our frame shop, there are currently 7 of us. What happens here other than building and painting bikes? Our domestic side? Here are our stats:
TRANSPORTATION:
rode bike solo: 5 (42.6 round trip miles)
Rode bike with dog: 1
drove: 1
CONSUMED:
beverages:
cups of coffee: 10
cups of tea:9
other: 0
food:
bought lunch: 2.5
brown bagged it: 4.5
RECENTLY OVERHEARD:
“There are still frogs in the garden…”
“I have a hair growing here?… Weird.”
LISTENED TO:
“No Ones Gonna Love You” – Band of Horses
“Into the Morning” – The Weekend
“Legend” album – Bob Marley
“Money for Nothing” – Dire Straits
HOURS SPENT:
Metal fabrication: 10
Painting: 21.5
Administration: 9
The dropouts that we make for the geared SV’s have a steel main body for strength, but we still want stainless steel where the wheel is interfacing with the frame; the faces of the dropouts. The inner face is brazed onto the dropout with silver, prior to joining the drops to the chainstays. The outer face is bolted on with 4 size 2-56 (small) stainless torx bolts after the frame is painted. We have the outer face laser cut from 22 gauge 304 stainless steel flat stock. Laser cutting is precise and makes for a nice part, but because of the heat, it leaves a burr on the edges of the part where the laser penetrates (yes this whole post is just an excuse to say “laser penetrates”) and a not totally consistent finish. This is a video of Mike putting the final brushed finish on a face before it goes onto a new SV road frame. Maybe your SV road frame!!!!
People think I’m pretty hard. Supper tough and gritty and all that. It’s easy to see why, especially if I have some stubble, which I totally do a lot of the time. In fact, if a stranger had to describe my whole vibe – my thing, if you will – I’m almost positive that the word they’d use would be “street.” Hell, if I had a half-link for every time somebody mistook me for Omar Little from The Wire, I’d probably be able to make one of those weird half-link chains by now.
the resemblance is uncanny indeed
