Our prototype seat collar arrived today from DKG. This is an all new design specifically for our Corvid all carbon frame. Dave over at DKG also sent us a video of him machining it:Pretty sweet! We are going to make a couple of small changes but it is looking really...

Monday morning... As the coffee settles into my bloodstream and the bleary world comes into focus I have a vision. A vision of a bad-ass shotpeened titanium cyclocross bike!Decked out with a SRAM Rival gruppo, Chris King headset and some handbuilt wheels with Chris...

Shipping out today is an XS with painted titanium lugs (2008 special color Tokyo Pearl), clearcoated carbon fiber (made exclusively for us by EDGE Composites) and white script decals. The black and white motif is really timeless and sets off the lug design quite...

Neon Williams finished our sign the other day!It really looks fantastic, the attention to detail and overall quality of their work is outstanding.There is a strong sense of pride that you get when you see your name in lights.Thanks Neon Williams crew, you rock!

Harlan Price, Indy Fab's pro superhero endurance racer recently had his bike all juiced up for his race at the Marathon World Championships in Graz, Austria. To read more about how he dialed in his ride check out his blog post.Harlan (pictured with team mate Heather...

That's right.... vises. They are all the rage around here. We've got them all over the place. New ones, old ones, burly ones and meager ones.Vices that can do the rough stuff......and vices that do precise stuff...Jim heard that I was running around taking pictures of...

Riding over the Mass Ave bridge this morning on the way to Somerville from Boston I came upon a city on the edge of a fog bank. The skyscrapers of downtown were all shrouded in a thick fog.A small break in the clouds revealed the golden dome of the statehouse. The...

Weekend special crush(s): a pair of titanium cross frames that are shipping out today.These frames have each received a full Gloss Black paint job featuring Sprout Green (2009 color) grid panels, a coded binary top tube and white script decals.If you are at all...

Some of you know that we build some fine frame sets for Hampsten Cycles. For those of you that didn't.... now you do. We build their TIG welded steel bikes. The bike featured here is a stainless steel road bike built using the Columbus XCr tubeset.The frame includes...

This past weekend the Indy Fab posse invaded Franklin County Massachusetts for the epic Deerfield Dirt Road Randonnee otherwise known as D2R2. Most of us chose to do the 100 kilometer ride with 7,780 feet of climbing. Included in the 100K from IF was Jamie, Gary,...

Today we are taking a look at a recent cyclocross build featuring our Titanium Planet Cross. This one has a 3/4 paint job in Freshwater Pearl with silver script decals. This turned out to be a really clean build with lots of light (weight & colored) parts.We...

We walked across the parking lot again to check out the progress on our new neon sign. The bending and and electrode work was completed on the lower box portion of our logo.Dana was in the process of working on the crown when I walked in on him.The reddish part of the...

Our beloved OX is currently on a cattle truck (no joke) traveling from Melbourne to Perth in Australia. It's making it's way from coffee shop to coffee shop and from bike shop to bike shop, stopping people in their tracks everywhere it goes.Above is a picture taken in...

For the last couple of months we have been working with our friend Bud to create a video for each bike model that we manufacture. We will be uploading the videos to our site upon completion. They will be scattered throughout the main site with some more in depth...

We at Independent Fabrication were proud and honored to be a part of hosting a checkpoint for this year's North American Cycle Courier Championships (NACCC).This year's major race was an 8 hour work simulation with checkpoints throughout Boston, Somerville, Cambridge...

Yesterday we took a little field trip (by little I mean across the parking lot) to our neighbors at Neon Williams Inc. They are in the process of making us a neon Indy Fab sign and needed to talk about the final details. (I would link to their website if they had...

Part three in our series of bikes and friends, and this one is all about the planet. No healthy planet, no wild places to ride... we all lose. My good friend and former colleague, Terry Kellogg, is the Executive Director of One Percent for the Planet. Founded by...

Second in a series of bikes and friends, this one is about Big Red and ProBars (bet you were thinking this post was about a different kind of bar). Jules Lambert, fearless leader of ProBar, is a good friend, and friends don't let friends ride mass-produced bikes. So,...

It's great when you can dance at the intersection of many good things. You all know that we get to play with bikes here at IF, and nothing goes better with bikes than good music. One of my best friends happens to be an accomplished musician. Roger Clyne was the front...

Recently we had some friends come by and visit. I just thought it would be nice to share their perspectives. The local queen of the sexy cycling blog Pedal-Strike (click here for her visit) came by with some of her friends from one of our New York City shops NYC...

Carbon fiber Corvid lugs are being cleaned up on the downdraft table above. Each lug is individually prepped for each custom frame.This is our new do-all carbon fiber cutting machine... dubbed: "The Horizontal Plow" by Sputnik Tool. It has various modular parts that...

I couldn't resist grabbing these pictures from the IFracing site and sharing.The bikes just look so pro all lined up like this.....like a team.GO TEAM GREEN!

Q: How much does it weigh?A: It weighs 1.1 ounces (in sterling silver) more than it could.... gotta make it legal, right?BTW: You must click on the above picture to see through the tint to the weave on the top tube... in certain lighting situations (like in our photo...

It's all in the details. We just couldn't let our man James ride a bland fork any longer.So we juiced it up.... with the espresso pot reach around: a fresh new Embro duo-tone wrap around pattern.The carbon fiber from the Ouzo Pro fork is peeking through the Embro...