SOPWAMTOS

Society of People Who Actually Make Their Own Shit (SOPWAMTOS)

Anyone interested in starting a northwest chapter?

Starting a Frame Biz?

Alright, here's any easy way to go. Get a credit card, a wicked slick logo and website. Start generating some hype about your love for the craft.

Go here: your shop and place an order. Get your sic logo printed. Apply said 'sic logos' to your frames. Sell the frames for a healthy margin.

BAM, you are now in the bike industry!

That route would have been so much easier, or maybe the headaches would just be different. I don't know. The one thing I do know is, the far east is making it easy to buy frames, and from the looks of them pretty darn good frames. I mean $250 for a hardtail MTB! You think that's too inexpensive for a frame, just start doing the mark-ups from a finished piece price of $250. If everyone tacks on %60 it gets to be a retail price of over $1000 pretty quick. Manufacturer ($250) to the bike co ($400) to the distributor ($640) to the bike retailer ($1025) to the consumer. Seems about right.

Ha

I've heard this conversation a bunch.

All Good...

...in the hood.

This blog has been so quiet lately but there's been lots of stuff going on. First, and most exciting, is that I'm packing up the family and moving to Hood River. I've got a new job at an exciting company that will be keeping me very busy.

Second, I'm putting Marcroft Cycles on idle for a little while. I still plan on building bikes, but in very limited numbers. I'm also going to continue developing my carbon products mainly just for myself and some test riders.

That's about it. I'll try to update this blog a little more so all my adoring fans can track the progress.

Hot Sauce Committee Part 1

Next Build

Started work on a frame for this guy. I can't wait to get my next set of dishes from him.

Carbon Foot Print

The last few months I've been very busy working on the evolution of Marcroft Cycles. Here it is, full custom carbon construction.


This frame was made by me using domestically made components. I was able to source all the components from suppliers in the USA. The dropouts and seat post clamp were designed by me and machined in a shop 5 minutes from Marcroft Cycles World Headquarters.

Pretty rad.

So Close it Hurts

This week it all comes together.

Still Going

Designed these:

To go here:

Which will make these guys and me very happy.

Development,

it's happening:

Cancer Sux

Rapha Gentleman's Race 2009

Team O got an invite. I'll be ramping up a peak fo' sho'

What's HTC Make

Oh, they make phones. Thanks Cav.

Boonen TDF

In honor of Tom getting to race La Tour here's his techno song.

It's True, Again

Steerer Fail

Must have been manufactured on a Monday.

Random

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

Smelly Blog

Hang tight. I've got some cool shit I've been working on.

Lance Reality Show

I've been following the videos Lance Armstrong has been posting on The Paceline.com. I'm thinking someone should ink a deal with him for a reality show. Might be worth a watch.

Seriously Good Coverage

Giro Coverage worth watching. It makes me excited to get to work and use up some bandwidth.