The first drop of the first ever Caldera Cycles jerseys is on the way and should be landing around mid June. Preorders will get this top quality jersey at a discounted price of $140 which is a steal for a high quality cycling garment – Italian Sitip material, silicon waist gripper, YKK hidden zip, yadda yadda yadda…. Get some! Check out the order page
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I’ve just ordered a sample of this… All going well i’ll have the design confirmed and a full run delivered in a month or so, with more kit and accessories to follow.
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I had this Paul Components order turn up today, some of this is just for stock but a few sets of brakes, the levers and other small parts are for various bikes that I have in the queue. One of the bikes is Bob’s touring bike which is now finished and ready for the painter, another is my new commuter bike which will be back from the painter next week. I have another small order on the way which contains one of the limited edition purple anodised seat posts and a bottle opener for a friend. Caldera Cycles is a Paul Components dealer for New Zealand so if you’re after some of their amazing parts, all the way from Chico CA in little ol’ New Zealand, send me an email.
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I built this balance bike as a gift for Steve and Amy’s daughter Isabelle a while ago, mainly out of scrap Columbus tubing that I had laying around. It’s fillet brazed. It came out pretty lightweight and looks super flash in the pearl pink the painter picked out! Got to start them out right – Custom steel all the way! More photos on Flickr
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I received the final parts to put John’s bike together last week and got it finished off. Once it was built, I took it up to One Tree Hill and took some snaps.. The rest are on Flickr – Here
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If you’re from New Zealand, (especially from the North Island) and you’re into cycling you’ve probably heard of the Coleville Connection. There are various event options but the main event is a 72km Mountain bike race around the exceptionally scenic tip of the Coromandel Peninsula. A lot of this race is on relatively smooth gravel roads, there’s a section of moderately technical single track and a little bit of sealed road at the beginning and end. I’ve done the event 5 times now, although 4 of those were actually on mountain bikes, I actually don’t own a mountain bike now and figured it was cyclocross’able. That theory went reasonably well except apparently my core strength wasn’t up to the jarring of that much gravel road, corrugations and bumpy, technical (for a CX bike) single track…. By the end of the race I felt like my core had been shaken to bits, all of my muscles around my lower back and ab’s were stiff and tender. My shoulders, forearms and triceps were about the same. My hands felt..
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I know it doesn’t look like much here but this is for my personal commuter bike. I’m quite excited to see this once it’s painted!
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Done! ..and off to the painter.
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These photos have been sitting on my computer for a long time, I finally had a chance to upload them and get the bike in my portfolio. If you want to see all of the photos the’re in this Flickr Photo Set. Otherwise, head over to the portfolio page.
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It’s been a while! Ever since Christmas and the New Year, everything’s been pretty hectic but I have been working away on a few frames. John’s Touring frameset is back from paint but still waiting on a few parts which were held up because Shimano had no stock. These are some photos the painter took in the booth. I’ve finished the commuter bike besides one tiny braze-on that i’m waiting on (Big package of materials which was held up by customs). I actually don’t have any photos of that but will get some before & after it goes to paint. I’m also about 75% through building Bob’s touring bike which i’ve been taking photos at every step. I used a whole bunch of pins in the head tube of this one, especially the lower head lug – I had to manipulate the lug angles a lot to get this working and the lug fit well, it just needed some help to keep it all sitting where I needed it. More on that later when..
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