Help Jeff, Win Bike, originally uploaded by pereiracycles.

From a guy who builds wicked cool bikes. I’m entering now!

Bamboo#2-4, originally uploaded by Xvelo Designs.

Life has been crazy the last few months. Busy at work, busy at life and creativity is at an all time low. We had a short “vacation” in Vail last week, Margot skied and went to some caves in Glenwood Springs so that was cool. We stayed in a spectacular house, probably too nice for us but still wicked nice.
On to what’s going on now…Trying to build the bamboo road bike but based on emails from the work side of life, this may be the last work in some time…
I’ll post again when creativity strikes again and i find time to post to this web-log…

Bike Path Warrior (Slow) by smitche383 at Garmin Connect – Details.

Pedaling with Scott on Saturday.  I sure need to ride more…

Garage Shot, originally uploaded by Xvelo Designs.

I actually cleaned the garage. And i had to take a shot as i dont know when it’ll be that clean again. And i’m traveling now so i have photos of the kids, the wife and the garage…
This weekend i’ll be finishing bike #4 and hopefully riding it on sunday. We’ll see how that goes.
Traveling for work is an odd thing to me; I’ve lucked out at my current company as to have never traveled before. I’m fairly certain that it’s a ploy to get us away from the family so we work 14 hours a day without complaint as we have nothing else to do…except blog about the garage.
Cheers for now…

Randonneur Bike #4-2, originally uploaded by Xvelo Designs.

Frame, fork and fenders came home from powdercoat yesterday. Had to hang some parts to see how it’ll eventually look. I’m out for the rest of the week, i’ll be back at it hopefully it’ll be finished late this weekend and ready to roll…I’m dying to pedal bikes!

Rocky Mountain Homebrew Club Challenge, originally uploaded by Xvelo Designs.

Hanging with the beer geeks for a snowy Saturday in Denver. Falling Rock Taphouse hosted the 2011 Rocky Mountain Homebrew Club Challenge. I was a judge for the Light Lager and Pilsner category in the morning session and the Scottish Ale group in the afternoon session. My man and senior Lebrewski Jamie won a bronze for his Belgium IPA and kicked ass with his famous Christmas beer bringing in a gold for the spiced beer category. A good time was had by all, I don’t know that I can commit to that level of geekery on another hobby but I’ll certainly make some more beer! Cheers…

Randonneur (Bike #4), originally uploaded by Xvelo Designs.

First attempt at internal routing for the rear brake on my Randonneur. Technique wise, I’ve seen enough of them done by real bicycle builders so it went smoothly enough. Note to self: don’t use brass internal tubing (even though it was all you could find local) as it has the same melting temp as the rod you’re using to braze with. This was also my first time using the Henry James brass and Gas Flux flux. It was a different curve than what I had been using but i’m much more comfortable with it now.

The bike is coming along really well, the fork is 95% put-together with only some finishing work to go. I’ll have more pics in the coming days as the snow is flying here in Denver and I have 3 days off! The gas tanks are new, i have several ounces of silver and 2 lbs of brass with plenty of flux to go around, i’m gonna have fun!