Tamarack Cycles

09/27/2026

DC’s new custom Tamarack road bike is assembled and ready for adventures!
This one’s a classic road geometry, built with Tange Prestige heat-treated steel tubing in 0.7-0.4-0.7mm superlight wall thickness, with a straight-blade fork for a modern look. The Long Shen arrowhead lugs and matching bottom bracket look sweet. DC chose full mechanical, Shimano Ultegra R8000 with a 105 R7000 53/39 chainset, and Shimano’s lovely RS500 wheels shod with Conti GP5000-S tires. FSA provides the finishing kit, and a comfy Brooks Cambium C17 promises long hours in the saddle with comfort.
I think this came out quite nicely, the internal cable routing is clean and the Dupont Imron paint has a great gloss.

09/22/2026

A couple of sneak peeks from the spray booth today, with the final coat of clear applied. PPG Ceramiclear flows out wonderfully!
Stay tuned for the complete bike build in a week or so, after the paint has had a chance to cure…

09/19/2026

Spraybooth time today - primer coats, and some midnight green. Tomorrow, decals and clear coats.

07/27/2026

DC’s new Tamarack classic road frame is ready for paint. This one’s built with Tange Prestige Japan 7-4-7 superlight tubing, and a wonderful set of lugs and bottom bracket shell from Long Shen. Shift cables run through the down tube, and rear brake cable is inside the top tube. Double-taper seatstays fit into the seat lug’s cast spigots, giving a sleek fastback. The straight blade fork gives the frame a rakish look (as it were…) and has clearance for 700x30’s with Ultegra R8100 sidepulls. The rest of the build will be full Ultegra mechanical with some sweet RS500 wheels. Looking forward to laying some coats of paint on this beauty!


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07/23/2026

A very interesting interview with Keith Noronha of Reynolds Tubing, with a discussion of the past of steel frames and a view towards future trends. I’m proud to use a lot of Reynolds tubing in my creations.

In this interview, Keith Noronha, Managing Director of Reynolds Tec...

07/21/2026

Tony’s Tamarack Adventure Road frameset is back from the spraybooth. He’s chosen this subtle Porsche colour called “aventuringruen” or Adventure Green, which is quite fascinating, in some lights it is grey, in other lights it’s green, with a sweet gold metalflake. This frame is built with Reynolds 853 main tubes and Columbus rear triangle and tapered head tube, with a Columbus tapered fork painted to match. The polished stainless steel head lugs really pick out the front end. The Rodeo Labs sliding dropouts don’t have the inserts in place as the paint is pretty fresh, clearcoated yesterday. Designed to fit 700x35’s with full fenders, or 700x40’s without, this machine will be doing some high level adventuring in the coastal mountains of British Columbia, I can’t wait to see the exotic full build.

07/20/2026

I usually don’t do resprays, but this one belongs to good friend and former co-worker Charles, who had this USA-built Lemond on an indoor trainer for a few winters and got some unsightly rust on a few places on the steel tubing. After stripping the True Temper steel to bare metal, and wet-sanding the carbon finish, I laid a few coats of classic DuPont Imron blue, applied some reproduction decals, and laid a few coats of PPG CeramiClear over top. Ready for another couple of decades!

07/11/2026

DC’s new custom Tamarack road frame is taking shape. This one’s built with Tange Prestige Japan 7-4-7 tubing, and some lovely lugs and bottom bracket shell by Long Shen, in an attractive ornate pattern with stiffening spines. It’s been a while since I’ve built with this set, there’s no latitude for adjusting the angles on these lugs, fortunately DC’s geometry fit worked perfectly with the lug’s angles. He wanted to have the shift and brake cables routed internally, which came out nicely, I think. Now on to the rear triangle…

06/19/2026

Always satisfying to stamp a serial number in the bottom bracket shell when a frame is finished - Tony’s adventure road frameset is ready for paint. This one’s designed around Rodeo Labs’ sliding dropouts and short chainstays, for tire clearances of 700x35 with fenders or 700x40 without; polished stainless head lugs are built around a Columbus tapered head tube, with an Alex Meade-designed lower lug and a matching Long Shen upper lug, so that the frame can fit a Columbus full carbon tapered fork. Tony wanted a fillet-brazed seat lug with a fastback seatstay, just ‘cause. Gonna look nice with the fillet-brazed fender bridge too. Triple bottle bosses give flexibility for packing big bottles or gear and there’s a third cage mount hiding under the down tube, and top tube gear bag bosses on top of the top tube, all with reinforcing diamonds for strength and durability on the thinwall Reynolds 853 tubing. This bike is built for major adventures in the coastal mountains of British Columbia!

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06/17/2026

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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