I just bought a new bike (Merry Christmas to me) in anticipation of the upcoming LOTOJA ride I'm doing this year with my riding buddy, Chris. It's a long enough ride with enough elevation change that I cannot do it on my Fixed Gear. So, cue a road bike:
It's a Litespeed Archon T1. Titanium frame! Carbon Fork. It's wonderfully lightweight, and probably from about 2009. The seller was a very nice lady who was selling her deceased husband's bicycles. She loved my bicycle chain bracelet, and was happy that it was going to someone who appreciated titanium.
The frame is slightly larger than I'd prefer. It has a 54cm seattube, and a 55cm top-tube. I normally ride a 52cm seattube, but with an appropriately sized stem and a zero-setback seatpost it should fit like a glove. And, y'know, give me room for growth (jk. I'm an adult.)
I've owned a titanium unicycle before, but never a bike! So this is a treat. From the short rides I've done so far, it rides incredibly well. I'm excited to put it through it's first ride of any real distance this weekend.
My fixed gear is a new-old stock (was, I guess) 'Maxway' frame (Fuji, SE, etc.) It's high-quality chromoly, with a carbon/aluminum front fork from Ventana. The bonded carbon fork is an eternal favorite of mine (think WoundUp). When this Ventana came up for sale and was appropriately specced for my frame (1" threaded fork, appropriate length and offset) I just had to have it. I'm running a carbon Ritchey Seatpost, titanium flat bars from Titec, SRAM Omnium cranks (165mm, another holy grail find from local classifieds), and a Selle saddle ($6 find at the bicycle collective from many years ago. To date my favorite saddle, ever.) The wheels are Miche Primato hubs laced to Velocity A23 rims. The only changes I have yet to make to this build are a new headset, and a zero-setback seatpost to lock in the fit.
I love this bicycle.
My previous fixed gear was a Grun Integral01. The frame was too large for me, but I bought this for the SRAM cranks. It needed a lot of work when I purchased it, but I made it work for my needs, and picked up some sick parts in the process. I love the bars on this bike. I almost exclusively rode on the drops, parallel to the ground. Very track bike feeling. When the Maxway frame came up for sale I swapped all of the parts that fit from this bike over to the Maxway.
The Surly Steamroller belongs to my riding buddy, Chris.
My Cargo bike is a Felt Totem, with the early Shimano STEPs electric system. This bike is a beast! I've had it up to 59.9mph (and I don't want to go any faster!) The smaller (24") wheels, and the long wheelbase make it exceptionally stable. Future upgrades are an upsize on the brakes and a conversion to tubeless tires.
My mountain bike is an odd one. A 26" steel hardtail with a 140mm front fork. The Surly Steamroller 2.0
The rims bother me on this bike. They are basically impossible to set up tubeless with any reliability due to the weight-reduction holes. I will be re-lacing the wheels to different rims (probably the Nimbus Dominator, as they're one of the only 26" rims with appropriate width) and setting it up tubeless.
This build is in-progress: An LDG (Livery Design Gruppe or Group) mini-velo. I've made some modifications to the frame, in the spirit of building it in my style. Added a disc brake tab to the front fork, and have cut the headtube down. I didn't like the big stickout on the original headtube.
The spirit of this LDG build is a simple, BMXish bar-crawler. Easy to ride, easy to lend to friends, easy to toss in a car. She'll be right, mate. In due time.
I have a few more bikes (and a bunch more frames). As well as a few tricycles and many unicycles. Maybe I'll add a post about those things someday, in the meantime here's a photo of the custom carbon fiber/steel unicycle I built! This was much inspired by the woundup forks. I sent it with a friend to the 2025 Colorado Muni Weekend, and it held up great. I've not ridden it as much as I'd like to.
