Moving....

I hate to post this, but Cycles Marguerite will be moving soon.  I am losing my space at 609 Foster St. overlooking right field of the historic Durham Athletic Park. I will keep everyone updated on the particulars as they become a little more definite.  Thanks for keeping up.

Frame Graphics:

Frame graphics are all done.  This  sample display was painted by Toby at Hot Tubes.

Take a look.

Down Tube

Down Tube Decals in Blue, Orange, Black, White and Clear.

Upper Seat Tube Band and Made in NC.

Lower Seat Tube Band.

Head Badge.

Display Complete!!

Fork Revisited:

  Spent some time reworking my fork bending fixture this week.  See the results below.

New bend on the bottom, old bend on the top. Both of these blades have 45mm of rake.  Thanks for the advice Tom, the new curve looks much better!!

Also spent some time helping a friend, Andy (Mantooth Industries) with a little machining on his frame jig. 

This is the stand off for the rear triangle.

Fork

Fork Raking Fixture

Blades pre-rake

Fixture Loaded

Blades Raked

For those of you with any interest:

REG HARRIS

PATRICK SERCU

1971 or so, HOOKED!!

That is all I can say.  These two racers and these two bikes.

I can remember reading about the two racers ( Do you know who they are?) and the bicycles speak for themselves. 

Frame Graphics Teaser:

This is just a tease.  I am having a decal sample display painted.  I will post photos when complete.

Head Badge Process

 Tube cleaned, fluxed with Magpie held in place.

 Add a little heat and silver; this is what you get

 Flux is then soaked off and if you did things kinda right there is little or no clean up needed along the shoreline

 Next, a little filing followed by a little sanding

Then a little elbow grease and a buffing wheel.

Ta Da, finished Head Badge.

This is what the final version looks like, two feet and a clean braze.

Busy

Finally, Fall is here.  For a few days anyway.  Things are going well.  Shop is pretty much set up and ready to roll.  Everything is in place to start cranking out frames.  I will try to update a little more regularly.

The Magpie is sufficiently rusted, so I had better get to work.

 I have been working on engraving fork crowns.  The logo fits nicely on a CX crown.

Here is the set up on the little CNC mill. 

This is a little better view.

Finished and Final version of the headbadges.  Many thanks to Neal at Vega.

This is a polished version of the prototype.  Missing a foot and not super clean, but you get the idea.

Decals are complete.  I will post photos soon.

Headbadge Prototypes

With just a little fine tuning these should work out nicely.

.040" stainless

Back at it!!

For you Toby, don't give up on me. Bridgeport Series I , 2HP Variable Speed.

Hope to have it wired and making chips soon.

I will update more, soon.

Signage....

Broom Wagon

The 2010 Tour de France was fun to witness. I would say that Jens Voigt jumped to first on my scale of favorite Pro riders if he wasn't already there. Good for Jens that he was able to finish in Paris this year.

Jens at the start of le Grand Boucle in Rotterdam.

No Broom Wagon for Jens. Here he is chasing to stay in the tour on a much too small borrowed bike after crashing on the descent of the Col de Peyresourde.

Remember, I told you to keep an eye on this corner.

MIG Welding the magpie sign.

Sign up, on a very hot Saturday.

Cycles Marguerite

Little by little

The shop is coming together nicely. More fixtures and still moving tools in and getting organized.

Here is a tentative schedule of when I will be in the shop.

Monday through Friday from about 6:30 pm until 8:00 pm.

Saturday 4:00 pm until 7:00 pm

Sunday Noon until 5:00 pm

Please give me a call if you plan to come by as I may be running about.

Fabrication/Welding table with vise and Bringheli fork jig.

Bringheli frame jig on stand with torch set up.

Old Park repair stand.

Newly built work bench with soon to be filled tool board.

Stand for frame jig.

Frame for fab/weld table.

Sign has been laid out and will hopefully be cut out and fabricated this week.

Thanks for cleaning up my bird Tia.

a little...a lot...

I managed to get a little accomplished in the shop this week. Still a lot to be done. Progress has been steady but slow. I am still working afternoons and Saturdays at the fabrication shop and weekday mornings doing some machining. This leaves me a little time in the evenings, Saturday afternoons and Sundays to accomplish everything else. McLean and I made a trip to South Carolina to pick up my Marchetti & Lange frame and fork alignment tables. It is good to finally have those back in my possession. Thanks to Phil Murphy for taking such care of them.

I also picked up some book cases, a small work bench and all of my cycling posters.

I plan to announce regular shop hours sometime next week. I am not sure that I will be building any frames at this point but at least you will know when I will be at the shop if anyone would like to stop by and take the grand tour. I will be moving tools and parts, building benches and organizing for some time yet, but I am still moving forward.

Here are the latest photos of the shop, as you can see much has changed since I started demolition.

Marchetti & Lange Label.

Frame Table with all of the fittings.

Modified Alignment Gauge, with custom adapters.

Dropout Alignment Tools.

Bottom Bracket Post.

Fork Alignment Table.

Steerer Tube Clamp, and Custom Inserts.

Park TS-3 Truing Stand with Dial Indicators.

Filing Work Station with Vise.

Wilton #350S Machinists vise.

Custom Lug Vise and Pacenti SS Lug.

Maple Tubing Blocks.

Book Cases soon to be filled.

Course Banner from the 1989 Word Championships, the real deal!

Check back often, as I hope to have some photos of my new frame and fork fixtures, welding table and Cycles Marguerite sign posted soon.