Hammerhead stem

The stem is painted and with its happy new owner, Squid from NYC. Check it out...

(more on the Velocity event later)





...I really like the stem and am doing a limited run of it in a few sizes. Same hammerhead shark style of course. Let me know if your interested in one.

Circle A Cycles and Jason's bike

I've always been interested in what's going on over at Circle A cycles. I've been lucky enough to see a couple of their bikes in person and really like what they've been doing.

A few days ago Emily over at Circle A sent me a link to this:
http://www.circleacycles.com/emily/?m=200706

The paint scheme was inspired by Jason's bike

A pretty cool interpretation of Jason's original stocking (bows and seams) design.

street bar/stem combo proto-type

I really have a thing for quill stems...here is a stem/bar proto-type I just finished. I'm going to give this one away @ the VeloCity event in Kenosha.

Two Jonny Cycles frames for sale....

Two separate customers contacted me in the same week looking to sell their frames (odd coincidence?). If your interested, or want to know more send me an e-mail and I'll put you in contact with them.

Jonny Cycles stock frame prototype: I built this frame to display at the last North American Handmade Bicycle Show. This is Jonny Cycles TIG welded frame #1. Its never been built up. The customer bought it at the show and was going to race it, but one of his major sponsors filed for bankruptcy so now the frame is available again.
Details:
55 cm top and seat tube (center to center)
74.5 degree head tube, 3 cm of rake
75 degree seat tube
6 cm bb drop
38.5 cm chainstays
1" threadless fork
Campagnolo Chorus headset included
Excellent candy blue paint by Doug Fattic.
A steel at $1000 + shipping












The other bike for sale is one of my favorites. I built it for John in LA...but he's went though a career change and is no longer in LA and a nice around town fixie is no longer what he needs.

Here the drawing for the bike - http://jonnycycles.com/misc/jk0027.pdf



More photos here:
http://jonnycycles.com/trackpix6.html
http://www.jonnycycles.com/progress/John.html

This bike has been ridden a fair amount, and although I have not seen it recently its in good condition.

Madison!

The last cookout was so much fun that we're having another one here at the shop.

This Sunday, June 10th. 5 pm until?

There will be some food here, and of course a grill so if your picky or hungry make sure to bring some food.

See you there?

Kenosha!

This is a pretty cool event thats coming up fast: June 23rd in Kenosha





http://cyclehawk.com/velocity/

Milwaukee!

If your interested I have a cool frame for sale...

My 58 cm 3Rensho road frameset on Ebay

More photos here:
http://jonnycycles.com/rensho.html

Madison bike polo #1

Check it out, the Madison bike polo team won the Midwest Bike Polo Championships! I helped them get some nice brown deep V rims for their rides....

http://www.justcoffee.net/blog/admin/2007/05/07/team_jc_repeats_as_midwest_bike_polo_champeeens_in_chicago

Sunday cookout

Since its spring, nice weather is here, and we have this nice new shop we're having a cookout on Sunday. Beer, food, bikes, cool people....what more could you want really?

There should be food for everyone (meat, vegetarian, and vegan), but feel free to bring your own stuff if you want.

5 pm until ?

4235 Argosy Court, Unit A
here is a map

If your biking its not that far (5 minutes from the old shop behind Revolutions). Just take the bike path all the way to Cottage Grove Road. Take a left on the sidewalk under Stoughton Road. Cut through the Mexicali Rose parking lot (can't miss it...gaudy pink restaurant). Take a left on Atlas, and a right on Argosy.

If your driving, well that's your fault.

See you there?

Urban Cyclist

There is a great new cycling zine....the first issue is out and you should read it:

http://www.urbancyclist.org/issue1/UrbanCyclist_Issue1_covers.html

I think this first issue is great and I'm really excited to see more.

Eric's stem

Just received some photos from Eric out in LA today. I built him a stem with integrated bottle cage mount to go with his single speed Jonny Cycles cross bike. The original bottle mount was a little to flexible and broke (hey it was a prototype...!), but the new one is working great and Eric sent me a note along with the photos.

"got the faceplate last night and installed it in the dark of the garage. seems super solid - thanks. will take it on maiden voyage later today if it stops raining. or fuck it, even if it's raining!!!!!"

More Fixed Gear Gallery

Linwood posted his new bike to the gallery:

http://fixedgeargallery.com/2007/apr/LinwoodHines_3.htm

Linwood was allot of fun to work with and always makes me blush with his comments:

"My (finally) first ride! This evening. Man, it rides GREAT! Fits GREAT! WOW! It's so smooth - comfortable - just a little stiff - stand and mash - she GOES! Thank you for a great bike!"

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In other news: Sorry I haven't been updating the blog much lately. I've been busy moving into the new shop. Every things pretty much setup, and I've been getting some actual work done which is always a good thing. Tomorrow the internet/phone will finally be set up at the shop so I'll have more time to post and update the site then.

Movin' on up and into spring!

Things have been a little hectic in the shop lately. Between paint scheduling hassles, NAHBS, and having to find a new shop space I've been a little frazzled. If you have contacted me by e-mail or phone lately I apologize for being a little slow with the response.

Anyway...winter is finally over (I hope) and spring is here. I've solved my paint scheduling issues, recovered from NAHBS, and best of all we have found a new shop space. I've been moving around quite a bit in the 5 years I've been building frames, and so far every move has been good. I started out in the basement of the Yellow Jersey. Andy Muzi was very helpful and I would have never gotten started building frames without his influence. Great guy, and without a doubt the most interesting person I know. I quickly outgrew my corner in the Yellow Jersey basement so I worked out a deal with my friend Jeff to work in a warehouse space that he had. While the space had a great central location (which is nearly impossible to find for cheap in Madison) it was unheated and lacked water so as you can imagine it was a tough winter. Jeff also owns a bike shop in town, Revolution Cycles. When he moved into a new larger shop awhile back I graciously took his offer to work in the back of his shop. Since I've been at Jeff's shop I've acquired allot of new equipment and have found two more people to share the space with. Now our 300 sq ft shop is just too small for all of us (sometimes there will be four of us working...and its annoying to bump elbows when your filing!). After a little searching Ahren and I found a great space. Ideally we would have liked to be more centrally located but since Madison isn't much of an industrial city there isn't much space that's suitable for our needs. We finally settled on a space that's a 5 minute bike ride from our current shop so its not too far out.

The new address will is 4235 Argosy Court, Unit A. Madison, WI 53704. We're moving tomorrow (April 1st). After we move in I intend to actually keep regular hours as I will no longer be working any of my other part time jobs (bike courier and bike mechanic). Who knows....maybe I'll even be able to take a day (or two!!!) off every week.

The new space is huge (1500 sq feet) and I'm not sure we know what to do with it all yet...but I'm sure we'll fill it up quick enough. Here are some quick photos of the space:

ZR Cycles

My assistant/shopmate/friend Zack Reilly has been making a few frames lately. Here is his latest that he made for our friend Mark (the Spark):



This frame is to replace Marks Cinelli track frame that was stolen (or maybe re-claimed depending on who you talk to). The frame Zack built is way cooler than the Cinelli.

See more of this one here:

http://fixedgeargallery.com/2007/mar/Zackrielley.htm

And more of his bikes are here:
http://www.zrcycles.com/

Zack has been working a little for me over the past couple years. If you have a Jonny Cycles frame there is a good chance he mitered some of your tubes, machined your crown race, and polished your stainless lugs.

More NAHBS photos?!

Brad from Dirt rag took allot of great photos at the show. You should check it out as its the best collection of good photos I've seen so far:

http://www.dirtragmag.com/gal/showgallery.php?cat=648&page=1

Brad took some great photos of my new cross frame, which I just built up last night and am riding to Milwaukee later today (in road bike mode....its spring not fall):

Fixed Gear Gallery Interview

If you haven't checked out the Fixed Gear Gallery in awhile, you should. Dennis has been doing allot of great things with the site: The forum is quite active, there are lots of interviews and articles, the schedule for the third annual Fixed Gear Symposium is up (its going to be even better this year!), and of course there thousands of photos of fixed gear bikes.

Dennis and Bill from the FGG were out at the Handmade Bike Show. While out there they took lots of photos and did lots of interviews which are all here: http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/reports/nahbs2007/

They're not done and are still adding photos and interviews daily. A couple of days ago they just added the Jonny Cycles section, which includes an interview with me. I haven't listened to the interview yet (I hate listening to myself)...so let me know if it was good or bad! Here is the Jonny Cycles page:
http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/reports/nahbs2007/exhibitors/jonnycycles/

3Rensho frame repair

I do the occasional frame repair, but since I'm always busy building frames I turn down allot of repairs or forward them on to the Yellow Jersey here in town as they are much faster. Usually I just do stuff for friends, or more often now friends of friends, or stuff that really interested in. Awile back Roberto contacted me and wanted me to replace the downtube in his 3Rensho. Usually I reccomend against such large repairs since its a fair amount of time (and thus money) to replace the tube, and then there is the whole re-paint that has to be done. In this case it was a fairly rare frame (large 58 cm 3Rensho track frame) and it had a good story to go along with it so we decided to repair it.

Aparantley while the bike was locked in NYC a thief attempted to steal it by cutting through the downtube. Fortunatley he was caught in the act, but unfortunatley he had already cut through the downtube. !?








Some photos of the repair in progress:










After fresh new paint, good as new...or maybe better than new?