Handbuilt to help you get lost
Dylan wrote up his trip on the Anne Beadell Highway in Australia, a tour that's been in the making for years. I built his frame, fork, and two racks in 2018 before he moved down there and it was by far the biggest endeavor i'd undertaken so I'm happy to see it carried him and... Continue Reading →
Building smaller frames is a challenge and one of the best reasons for people go custom. Seems like most my customers are at the ends of the bell curve on height. For the smaller frames especially standover matters and steepening seat tube angle actually does something more than check that box on the latest trend.... Continue Reading →
It's hard to describe all that goes into a custom bike. There's a reason it takes months to get one. The bike is not even conceived of yet and we need to take the time to figure out what it will look and feel like on the road and trail. Some have a pretty good... Continue Reading →
There's a lot of things you can do to stock bikes to customize the fit and ride. Bike fitters may cringe at this post but I want to provide a list of things you can do to try BEFORE buying a new bike, especially a new custom bike. Bikes from almost any manufacturer are pretty... Continue Reading →
Not a usual thing but since i had a small influence on how these came out I wanted to share this article and the cool bikes coming out of Fatback Bikes - who is now Corvus Cycles. Plus the Crow Pass has the portage handle and comes with a frame bag, that's pretty cool. https://bikerumor.com/2021/10/15/fatback-bikes-are-now-corvus-cycles-4-new-bikes-including-crow-pass-ti-gravel-adventure-dropbar/
In 2015 I befriended Nicholas Carman who had a blog Gypsy by Trade. I loved reading about his bikepacking travels and offered to make him a frame. I could tell he had an interest in custom framebuilding and would be a great ambassador for Meriwether at a time when i was starting out. I offered... Continue Reading →
Kurstin was looking for a longtail fatbike that he could load up and go get lost all over Nevada. The ability to carry a lot of water and food is the main reason certain (crazy) people love longtail fatbikes. There's more storage space, they are stable when loaded up with the long wheelbase, and the... Continue Reading →
On the actual Solstice i learned Gravy had shared my 2009 post from the insularly popular Dela Marin that has been going on since 1986. More words and pics at my old blog here! I didn't even realize that old site is still up and active, pretty wild to look back at it, and that's... Continue Reading →
In a year unlike an other it's been hard to focus on the good, but a surprising trend is that it's been a good year for bikes. Bike shops sold out of everything and had month's long waits for service. It appears the definition of 'essential worker' has expanded to include bike shop employees and... Continue Reading →
In the wayback machine today....I'm not sure why I'm sharing this, or maybe that I've never shared this, but it's a "proposal" I wrote at the end of the 1998 race season, 22 years ago this Fall. It's always good to look back and laugh, ha ha ha... I had just finished my 5th season... Continue Reading →
Jake is one of my first Sacramento customers somehow. I'm thankful for the referral from Tim at Joule Cycling that told Jake about my new Titanium offerings. Tim ordered a sea foam green segmented fork some years ago for his custom steel singlespeed. Jake wanted a bike that would be perfect for both cross racing... Continue Reading →
Scott's is my 8th Titanium frame, built in February. He lives in Bend, Oregon and just shared some great pics of the bike while riding out in his backyard -- a mix of BLM roads and trails that seem to go on forever, lucky guy! He wanted something that would primarily be used on dirt... Continue Reading →
Flashback Friday...today 9 years ago i built my first frame (outside of the class i took in 2010). Meriwether Cycles, LLC was established in 2013 and since then has produced 135 frames and 70 forks. This year is already unlike any other for a lot of reasons but I have about 8 frames in the... Continue Reading →
Flashback 5 years to a birthday fatbike ride where a bunch headed up to Truckee to spend a few days in the sun and mountains. It was a very mild winter in 2015, as the last 3 had been, so there’s not a lot of snow and temps were up in the mid-60’s. It really... Continue Reading →
Continuing to update this site with blog posts from my old site...here we go with a rant on fatbikes and plus tires, originally written 10/27/2015. "Why do you want to ride something that’s slower and heavier? Granted if you’re not a good rider and you want something that you can go over stuff, I get... Continue Reading →
I was looking through old photos and came across my first solo unsupported bikepacking tour in August 2007. Prior to this I had attempted the Colorado Trail in 2001 with two friends only to get snowed out on day 2. It was early September, just before 911, and it snowed over a foot in Bailey…game... Continue Reading →
From the Archives, originally posted January 1st, 2015. Happy New Year!Travis Brown interview on everything fat and where Trek and Bontrager fall into that world. I met Travis while living in Boulder, Colorado over 15 years ago. I was starting to ride for the grassroots Ionic-Nema MTB racing team (a baggy shorts pro team!) in... Continue Reading →
The Works Components angle headsets seem pretty unknown on this side of the pond (they're a UK company). A customer shared the link with me as an option to slacken the head tube angle on his Meriwether MTB that I built him a few years ago. The HTA of the frame is 67 degrees but... Continue Reading →
Last Saturday was the 30th Anniversary party for Paul's Components in Chico, CA. I rarely leave my lair but this was one event I had to attend. Plus they wanted me to bring a bike with some of Paul's nice parts on it and I had just the one to bring... My first personal experience... Continue Reading →
In fall of 2009 SSWC was held in Durango, Colorado, 10 years after the inaugural event in Rancho Cucamonga. That first SSWC I drove out from Boulder to meet Travis and race the event. It was my first time witnessing the CA singlespeed scene and the Amigos in orange jumpsuits. It wasn't until recently that... Continue Reading →