Today my singlespeed steel Deluxe bike turns 10.This has pretty much all of the original parts on it from 10 years ago. I have gone through a few chains, freewheels, tires, chains, brake pads, and I think I had to put a new rim on the rear about 7 years ago, but my...
David’s sweet rigid 29’er sold by our man in Germany: Ken Bloomer of IFbikes.de.(Ken has some cool stuff on his blog that is also worth checking out.)This bike just shipped out the other day. It’s amazing to see how fast it came to life.David put a...
I was apparently unaware that I should have prefaced the initial blog post about this frameset with a ***spoiler alert*** or at least just held off for a little while. I will repost the initial images as soon as the bike is unveiled at St. Ali (maybe sooner). My...
Bike people like t-shirts, probably as much as music people do. Spring may finally show up here in New England, so it was time for some new tee’s. While we do lots of different colors and spins on IF logo shirts, we were struggling to come up with some fresh...
The final bike we brought to NAHBS was an XS Club Racer. This bike was designed to use the Paul Racer Brakes and to accommodate the stainless steel Honjo fenders that we painted and pinstriped.The seat cluster lug had to be specially made just for these brakes.This a...
The fourth Bike in our NAHBS series represents a project we are working on for the Wounded Warriors Project. A complete bike (very similar to this one) is being donated by IF to help support the cause. Each time you purchase a $10 raffle ticket (HERE) you get a chance...
