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So now that Matt has done his NAHBS review I thought I would share some of my highlights. I started looking through my camera and realized I had one photo of a bicycle. Everything else was random fun stuff. So I guess I'll share a few random tid bits from the weekend. First. A husband and wife came by the booth for a bit and the wife mentioned that anyone who had a picture of Marc Bolan and their

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The 2010 edition of NAHBS is over and everyone wants to know what was cool at the show. So I put together a little sample of what I saw and what I found exciting.Best in show: Dave Kirk's new road dropouts. These svelte beauties have ball sockets in each end making the builder's life a complete breeze. No more bending plate dropouts, no more slotting... this man is a genius. Best raw bike: The

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After all the set up and prep, we had our first full day of the bike show. It's been interesting to think about how this weekend brings all of these incredible artisans together under one roof. "Oh look it's Tom Kellogg! Isn't that Dario Peroretti?" Crazy. This year out booth location couldn't be better. We are on the corner of a big ol aisle and right next to the friendly giant Curtis Inglis. He

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The crate with four of our bikes was loaded onto the freight truck today. That signals the end of the preperation for the North American Handmade Bikeshow. Nate and I will get on a plane and head to Virginia on Wednesday. The bikes all look great, I was a bit bummed that my personal bike didn't make the time cut, but that's how it works. I'm really looking forward to checking out bikes and bike

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Everything is coming together. We have a few loose ends to tie up and we should be ready to get on the plane and fly to Richmond. The winter months have been good for us, seems like there are a lot of people out there making plans for new Signal bikes and we are happy to build them. The popular bike for us right now is the long reach fendered road bike. It is the perfect Pacific NW do it all bike

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Hi folks. Just a quick update from the Signal shop. Our new headbadges arrived today! The next 50 bikes will have these so I hope everyone likes them. They are etched pewter and look really classy. Parts are getting installed on Nate Woodman's bike. Old mountain bike components were so nice! Myles and Brians bike are at paint. I was able to see Myles bike with the base coat and the paint looks

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It was a good day of tying up the details on the last two bikes we have planned for the "big show." Brian Twilley's singlespeed 29er is pretty much done and it is going to be a hot bike! I was realizing that we have showed a mountain bike at each of the shows we've been at and they have all been singlespeed 29ers. There's something about that category of bike that I find really appealing. The

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This is the accumulator for a 1946 Monarch 10ee lathe. Yeah, that's my hand holding it. Nothing more to see here.

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Newly formatted blog thanks to Brian Twilley! Something about blogs and my limited knowledge of CSS and where to put the things that the page wants. I tried, but it was a pretty bad try. Let's move along shall we?Lots going on right now in the Signal shop. We did a pretty big reorganization a few weeks ago and now when I walk into the shop, it feels like we gained so much more space. It's really

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In keeping with the pre-NAHBS tradition Signal has established, Matt and I were in the shop until midnight last night. It seems every year we have a few times before the show when there just isn't enough hours in the day.....so we get to work at night, too! But it really makes the morning coffee and parmesan, bruschetta omelette, or bi pong moun in Cambodian, taste even better. Off to work!

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I think we do...

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Went to Bunk for lunch today and it was raining pretty good so there wasn't even a line! It's the place with the best tuna melt around, but don't tell anyone, the lines are already long enough. They also serve coke in bottles from Mexico so they have sugar instead of corn syrup. Good stuff.The NAHBS preparation is still taking most of our time. For some reason we decided that this would be a

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We had the pleasure of spending the morning in Brett's shop the other day. Brett helps us when we run into problems that are over our heads. With this much equipment, there isn't much he can't solve.

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We got a letter from a recent customer that we wanted to share. Chris lives in Scotland, and we built him a sweet geared cross frame and fork. It's a little hard to put so much time and love into a bike and to send it out, likely never to be seen again. But it feels good to know that he's getting a lot of enjoyment out of it! (despite a "hang" up)Hi Matt and Nate,I hope you are both well, I’m

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Tuesday morning Emily and I flew back to Colorado to spend some time with the family for Thanksgiving. When we got back to the house my dad was really excited to show me this new tool he made for the garden this last summer. I tried it out, works great! He found the old frame at a local bike shop junk pile and welded up the frame. Check out the original handlebars and grips. Sweet!This last week

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Seriously.More pictures here

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Sunday was the final Cross Crusade race and we were out there cheering for the team. It was wet and muddy and it was Barton Park. I think it was John Dorfer who called this course the "home of the mechanical" and it did not disappoint. Both Marila and Dave had race ending mechanicals at about the same time into the A race. Kind of a bummer to end the season that way for those guys, but Pete and

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So it's no secret that Pete has been using a flat bar for cyclocross this year (much to the dismay of Matt Hall). We had an opportunity to have Pete try some of the new Ergon grips and get his feedback. Here's what he had to say:I love the grips. I was concerned that the single clamp on each grip would not be enough to prevent rotation (as opposed to dual clamp 'lock on' style grips). Turns out

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About a month ago Matt came up with the idea to do a little drawing on the packaging for the t-shirts we ship. All cool bike parts and shop tools. We have sent a good amount and I should have been taking pictures of them all. It would be a pretty cool display over the year.This is one I drew this morning and sent out to Sylvania, Ohio. Order a shirt and you'll never know what you're going to get!

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We are showing bikes this weekend at the OBCA show in Northwest Portland. The show is the second for the Oregon Bike Constructors Association. We didn't show the last time they had a show (2007), but feel really good about supporting the organization. The OBCA is a collective of Bike builders in the Northwest, trying to pool our resources to make things easier for everyone. It is a bit of a

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Signal Cycles Cyclocross from Benji Wagner on Vimeo.Thanks Benji Wagner for making such a rad movie! And thanks to the team Pete, Marila, Carey, and Dave for being so awesome!

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After the cross race last week I came home and picked the last green tomatoes from the garden to make pickles. I tend to eat my pickles so fast there is no need to do proper preservation pickling. I use a quick pickling method my mom use to for the last summer vegetables like the last bunch of green tomatoes, beans and okra. She used to say that it doesn't matter what spices you use, the key is

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Today we drove out to the Cross Crusade race, popped up the tent and cheered for our team. We were without Marila today, and she missed a hilly tough course! It was dry and really bumpy, so I was glad that we finally got tires for our super-rad Chris King team wheels. The wheelsets are using Ambrosino tubular cronos rims with Challenge tires glued on. The 34mm tires were the perfect weapon for

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There is a really cool article in the current Ready Made magazine featuring a few Portland builders. Benji Wagner took the photos. Check out his new work on his website to see more photos that you can't see in the mag. He is also working on a short film following the new Signal cross team and we'll let you all know when it's a wrap. Jeremy Dunn wrote the words and it came together nicely. Go out

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