Make it in Massachusetts: Indy Fab, Fat Chance, Spooky, Seven, Royal H, Peter Mooney, & Geekhouse

That's really a clever thing, someone should tell Velo Orange or SJS etc.

I think the dwindling supply of frame pumps would dampen the need for it

Any update on the geek?

Just sitting in the attic in pieces at the moment. My powder coater really fucked up another frame of mine and I haven’t gotten at around to fining a new one.

What happened?

They blew through a seat tube, blamed it on rust but it was a recently replaced tube.

Ouch!

You gotta insist on glass bead or some other gentler media than sand if that's what they use by default

:(

Hot Tubes in Ærra Geola mode.

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Damn I love this bag! I think this Waxwing bag may be my favorite/best/most used purchase of 2022. Dave expanded the front of a Mini, but kept it nice and short as I often run bottles on my handlebars as my HotTubes has no WBC braze-ons. The RaClips are an awesome mounting solution, would recommend even on non Waxwing bags.

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Love that Hot Tubes and the Waxwing looks great.

I was raised in RI and lived in Boston for a time. I have a major soft spot for the Boston/NE lineage of handmade bikes.

I have a major soft spot for the Boston/NE lineage of handmade bikes.

It’s all so cool that there’s also so many of them, and their all tangled and connected.

Temporary place holder for parts till a certain someone builds me a made in New England frame to replace it.

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Was supposed to only have clearance for 35s,
That’s a 42 in the back with a 6mm allen key.

And a 38 in the front with oodles of space.

Schwalbe Ultrabites are on sale right now for $45 for 38s or 60 for 40s.

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Don't be shy. Spill.

Nice Gunnar.

For real! So many certain someones in New England. I’ve got my hopes set on a bike from a Rhode Island someone.

I’ll write up a little blurb about Hot Tubes and their importance to the US bicycle culture as a whole, it goes way beyond the frames

Did you do this and I missed it? If not, and you can find the time, it sounds like an interesting story.

The whole lineage of New England framebuilders is a pretty interesting story. Especially the diaspora from the Boston/Somerville group. I’ve got a soft spot for all those folks being from Rhode Island and having lived in Boston.

Oh reaaaaaallllly? I think I know who that’ll be and I am very stoked for you. Love his work so much.

That is very pretty tho

If only! No time soon for me, but he mentioned waiting for a frame to be built by someone in New England. I’m hoping for a Chapman for him so I can live vicariously.

Lol sorry I thought you meant you were in line for a Chapman.

But a guy can dream, right?

Ha not a Chapman.