Yet another early morning stainless session. I couldn’t resist any longer, I had to weld her. I checked Bella out on the surface plate to figure out my welding sequence, then set her up in the welding stand, fit her up with all of the purge fittings/heatsinks,...
This installment of “The Stainless Report” chronicles an early morning framebuilding session by myself (Tyler) and Jamie. These are the tubes, chainstay sub-assembly and the build sheet:The first tube that we cut off was the headtube on the lathe:Then we...
It seems as though stickers are all over the factory. Before the fridge became the target for peoples need to stick a sticker to something people stuck stickers all over the place. In my search for vintage IF stickers stuck to stuff I came across some winners on our...
The Columbus XCr chainstay sub assembly is completed. The sub assembly includes bottom bracket, chainstays and dropouts.The pieces were mitered, slotted, cleaned, argon purged then tack welded together in our sub assembly jig.The XCr stainless steel tubing cut and...
This was one of our NAHBS bikes from 2008. It was the first IF lugged bike. The frame, fork and stem were all built and polished in-house at IF… under the cover of darkness. It’s been riding the streets of Boston since the show ended.The entire tubeset is...
