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WILDERNESS TRAIL BIKES LUCKY NO. 428
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FROM THE BUILDER RULE NO. 001 : SWEAR TO SHRED
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On a fall day in 1991, I walked into good ol’ T-Town Cycles in Trexlertown, PA on the hunt for my first mountain bike. I remember that day vividly: It had just rained, the new bike smell permeated the shop, glorious neon paint and bright anodized components surrounded me in all their glory. My father had driven me over (didn’t have my license yet...) and he was there in case my fist full of cash fell short. Which it did. But I ended up with a Trek Antelope 830, neon yellow with splattered black paint details. It was glorious and took me everywhere. This brings us to a not too distant present date in 2014 when I was contacted by Will Ritchie at Wilderness Trail Bikes inquiring if I’d like to test out a set of WTB Nano 40mm tires. One thing led to another and a long story short: I pitched the idea of building a bicycle for WTB’s 2014 Interbike booth space. Will along with the rest of the team at WTB were on board for the project and formulated their booth space accordingly. 4 bikes. 4 stories. WTB Product. All stoke. What follows is the visual tale of Will’s 27.5+ / 29+ 170mm Rohloff build taking shape. A record of the process, an assemblage of my methodology. This is not intended to be a visual “how to” of bicycle frame construction. It is a tale of a stoked client having their very first custom bicycle built. See you on the trail.
Kris, Oh my God. Thank you. A million times, thank you.
That frame is so beautiful, I can’t e completely built up and it looks so unreal to me, I can’t get over it, I re-realizing, that thing, that beautif gorgeous… will be… is… mine. Cr loitering, have to shoo myself back headache madness. Will
even believe it. We’ve almost got it o good, it’s incredible. It truly feels I have such a hard time realizing, ful bike almost complete looking so razy. I keep wandering back there, to continuing to round up Interbike
Will · Email Received 9.3.2014, 5:29 PM · Stoked on 44 Bikes
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Bike in a box
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K. HENRY · NIKON D60 · Let’s make a Seat Tube
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Taking Shape
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Chainstays
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Chainstay Jig
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Chainstay Subassembly
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Chainstay Jig
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Ready to be Tacked
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Main Tube Jig
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K. HENRY · NIKON D60 · Will’s Frame Taking Shape
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Rear Brake Internal Cable Routing
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 So it Begins...
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Ready to be Tacked
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K. HENRY · NIKON D60 · Let’s get in close...
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Fully Tacked Frame
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Proverbial Wheel Check
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Seat Stay Jig
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Seat Stays Ready
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Tacked and Wheel Checked
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Tacked
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Welding
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Welding
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Welding
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Weld-DEAD
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Seat Stay Bridge
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Brazing
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 STANCE
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 #Weldporn
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Ready for Powder
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 Back from Powder
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 FINISHED
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 FINISHED
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 DETAILS
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K. HENRY 路 NIKON D60 路 FINISHED
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POSTSCRIPT A special thanks go to Will and the rest of the crew at Wilderness Trail Bikes for accepting my proposal of building a custom bicycle to feature some of their new 2014 product line. It is with great pleasure and honor that I built this bicycle for Will. I hope to see and read about all his future adventures that take shape once the dust has settled from 2014 Interbike. Enjoy it Will. You deserve it. Also thanks to all of my OEM accounts for making this bicycle possible including Henry James / True Temper for tubing, Paragon Machine Works for fittings, ENVE Composites, Cane Creek, L.H. Thomson, Industry 9, Shimano, Quality Bicycle Products, and last but not least Jim and Garrett at Rev Limit Auto for their Powder Coat work. Without any of you, this project would not be possible and I look forward to many years of continued support for all of my bicycle needs.
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