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I somehow came across this blog, and was looking around at some pretty sexy frames from small builders... In the order: Ant, Clockwork, and Pereira.

There's a lot of cool stuff on the Clockwork site. I especially like the build pictorial, check out the homemade frame jig and kick ass beltsander/tube miterer.

I will now proceed to boogie.

I so decree it. And no embedded video.

I've got a brand new pair of rollerskates.

yeah yeah, I shouldn't have hot-linked a huge picture... I'll fix it later...

I mean I've never understood fetishizing Nikes for one. And then this pops up again:

To quote:

In honor of the recent publication of Red Dot's annual compendium of contemporary design, here are a few more off-the-radar picks from the most recent crop of designers that have the Red Dot seal of approval. Order your own copy from Red Dot for €78.

Aeroblade Bicycle
Designed to complement Spyker cars, the limited edition Aeroblade features a titanium frame, a Rohloff gear system that minimizes maintainance, and €12,500 pricetag. To get your hands on one of the 50 made, find a Koga dealer.

So an obscenely expensive bicycle that weighs 28.2 pounds gets a design award? But not a Seven, or a Calfee, or a bamboo Calfee. And apparently these things are being distributed by Koga-Miyata. Hmm Miyata, I think we've chopped a few of those. Looks like they make slightly less overpriced bikes, like this thing. Or I could buy a fucking Yeti for less.

Reminds me of when Cool Hunting had a post about a Puma brand bike that was basically a non-suspension Slingshot. Yeah, really innovative. I saw one of these in Berlin. It sucked. Though not as much as the "Mercedes" bikes I saw once in Paris.

Go back to blogging about sneakers and $100 "designer" t-shirts.

In happier news, Frank "The Welder" [the guy that built my Yeti Ultimate] now runs Sinister Cycles. I guess Spooky died long ago. I like the DNA.

Ok, rant over.

An actual splined, no lock ring, fixed hub.

Though it looks a tad heavy, it makes a lot more sense than the splined Miche cogs with adapters. Combine the LeVel and the Chub and you'd have the world's most bitch'n fixey hub. [Except for nonstandard parts...]

I've been meaning to get around to posting some pics of the canoe I'm building. It's a really interesting design by Platt Monfort that uses a frame made from very thin strips of wood, kevlar string as tension bearing members, and then it's all covered in a heat shrink dacron. The model I'm building is called the Sweet Pea Mark 2 [name's a little silly] and is supposed to weigh about 10 lbs when finished. Two things I've been wondering about: I've been thinking of staining the frame a darker color to increase the contrast between the frame and the translucent dacron, and I haven't thought of a name for the boat. Since it's the first boat I've built I figure it should have a name. Thoughts?