We’re just starting to work on a couple of new bike projects that will kind of fun and interesting.
The first is for a former member of the Canadian Women’s Road Team. The girl is not only an accomplished cyclist, Canadian lightweight female bodybuilder winner, winner of several World Championships in dog showing but is also a bit of a fighter plane nut. Like a lot of Canadians, she is proud of Canada’s accomplishment in designing and building the Avro Arrow some fifty years ago. The plane was by far the most advanced of its type in the world. This, much to the chagrin of the Americans who pressured the Canadian government of the time to abandon this glorious interceptor. If they couldn’t have it, neither could we. Might of helped in ‘Nam…
Avro Arrow
Our mission is to now create a paint scheme for her new bike that will use styling cues that will trigger thoughts of this famous plane. It will also be extra interesting as the bike is a 47 centimetre and will be Campagnolo Super Record equipped with Reynolds MV 32T UL wheels which is gonna make his thing LIGHT!…and tough. I’ll post pics on the website as it progresses.
The other bike is the long end of the scale. This is for Rob Mulder who won two National titles in the Masters division on the velodrome. Rob is 6′5″, about 235 and strong. When we were racing the track some ten years ago, I could sit behind him in a sprint at 65+kph because it was like drafting a bus, but I could never get my wheel around him all the way….no way. The big thing is going to be making it light while keeping it strong and stiff enough. We’re using the Deda EM2 with a heavier gauge downtube. These EM2 frames have had nothing but perfect reports on stability and stiffness but Rob will be the highest weight/height/strength combo so far. Looks like it’ll have a SRAM Red group with our new Claymore 1600gm clincher wheels. What will also be interesting is that Rob is a magician with carbon fibre fabrication. He’s repaired dozens of broken and de-laminating bicycle frames so seeing get back on a (at least partial) metal ride is novel.
Again stay tuned for pictures and ultimately a riders report.