Tamarack Cycles

Some more progress on Tony’s new adventure-road Tamarack frameset. After completing the main triangle, I fillet-brazed a seatpost binder to the seat cluster. Next, I brazed the chainstays to the Rodeo Labs’ “Lockjaw 2” sliding UDH dropouts, then fitted the chainstays to the front triangle. Next, I added a subtle bend to the double-taper seatstays and brazed them to the frame, now it’s starting to look like a bike frame! After some clean-up, I cut and drilled the seatpost binder slot and sculpted the top of the seat tube. Tomorrow, brake bridges and braze-ons - almost finished!

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Tony’s new Tamarack adventure-road frameset is in construction. This is an interesting build: a tapered Columbus head tube will mate up with the Columbus Gravel tapered carbon fork, using stainless steel tapered lower head lug by Alex Meade and a matching stainless upper head lug for sloping top tube, both of which will be polished when the frame is finished. To fit the 35mm down tube to a 28.6 seat tube, I sculpted and brazed-in a step-down sleeve in the UOS bottom bracket shell to accept the 28.6 seat tube. The seat cluster is fillet-brazed at Tony’s request. The dropouts are by Rodeo Labs, sliders allowing the chainstay length to be altered to fit 35mm tires to 40mm tires, and fenders or not. Internal routing for rear hydraulic disc brake and 1x rear mechanical shifting through the down tube. This has been a challenging but fun build so far…

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An interesting article, kinda binds with my world view.

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Another new Tamarack custom frame, back from paint. This one is an all-roads/gravel disc brake, Reynolds 853 Pro Team frameset built to clear 650b x 48’s or 700c x 42 tires, the paint is DuPont Imron “Las Vegas Gold Metallic” with metallic black panels and crown. Built with silver brazed lugged construction, it features internal routing for the rear disc brake through the down tube, and wide clearances for big tires. This one is up for purchase. Designed with a 6-degree sloping top tube, it’s the equivalent of a 56cm level seat tube (actual seat tube is 51cm CTC) with a 54cm top tube - call it a “medium” in today’s language. Stack = 570, reach = 370, head angle 71.5, seat angle 73, full geometry deets available upon request. Interested? Contact me…

Mark’s new Tamarack frameset is out in the sun. This compact beauty is built for 57-reach sidepull brakes with clearance for 700x35’s, and features some lightly-modified Richard Sachs lugs, Columbus Spirit tubing, and stainless Paragon dropouts front and rear. The Porsche Cherry Red looks amazing in the sunshine! The colour-matched stem is by WrenSports. This handsome devil will soon be winging its way to the USA. Thanks for looking!


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Finished spraying some clearcoat on a couple of new Tamarack framesets today - here’s a few sneak peeks from the spray booth…

One of my steel progeny made its way back home this week - built in 1997 (eeek, 29 years ago!), this one was commissioned by a former co-worker at my ex-shop - his nickname became “Cruiser Jim” for a while! This one is a mix of Reynolds 531 and 753, with a “lo-pro” curved top tube and a second top tube, with fastback seatcluster, a Kona Project Two fork, and a retro paint scheme. The last 15 years, Jim’s been more into Ducati’s and BMW 1000’s, and got tired of moving it around his garage, so he dropped it off to me. Looks like it’s going to get stripped, beadblasted, and resprayed to look like new again!

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So, the seatstay tops were sculpted, the stays brazed into place, the final braze-ons added, and Mark’s new Tamarack road frame is ready for paint. This one is built with Columbus Spirit tubing, some slightly-modified Richard Sachs lugs, a Long Shen flat-top crown, and stainless Paragon dropouts front and rear. Always satisfying to stamp the serial number on a completed frame build. Oh, wait, not completely ready for paint… I do have to buff the faces of the stainless dropouts and mask them off… oh well, tomorrow…

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Some progress on Mark’s new all-roads Tamarack frameset. This one’s built with Columbus Spirit tubing, for 57-reach sidepulls allowing tires of 700x35 or 700x38. Mark selected Richard Sachs’ “Nuovo Richie” lugs with a few modifications; I removed the forward tangs, and shortened the lug points to suit the 51cm geometry’s head tube length. The main triangle’s done now, on to the rear triangle next. Coming along nicely, I think.

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I just added the build photos of David's 853 Pro Team frame build to my photo gallery, if you're interested - lots and lots of process pics.

David's Tamarack 853 Pro Team David's custom Reynolds 853 Pro Team Disc frame's build. David wanted an all-roads geometry capable of fitting tires from 700x32 to 700x8, without fender mounts in the fork and frame. He requested a stainless steel sleeve for the front derailleur mount area so that changing the size of the outer cha...