First Day of School!

Tessa's first day of kindergarten.

No tears!!

Kinetic Architecture

Thru work I have recently become aware of this company called Turner Exhibits.  It looks like they do a lot of the design and fabrication for architects like  Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen.

This is a quote from their literature:

Turner Exhibits serves architects and designers by developing custom fabrication solutions for

museum exhibits, interpretive centers, kinetic architectural features and other exciting projects.

Small interdisciplinary teams evaluate solutions, plan, and carry out the production of each

project. We seek individuals who value collaboration and who bring a strong work ethic, positive

attitude, a love of problem solving and passion for fine craftsmanship.

I love that they design and then fabricate- seems like the best way to get something built right.

Very interesting projects......

Turner Exhibits Website

spaceframe rendering

this is a quick rendering i did for a project i working on at work.  it is actually a carbon fiber spaceframe with invar metal connectors.  to give you an idea of scale the larger members are 200mm (approx 8") diameter.  Some pretty cool hardware at the connections- definitely some real architectural potentials.  It will probably be a few years before this project is actually constructed, but its been very cool to work on.

The Rat Rod Bike

I stripped down the old rollfast bike I bought a few weeks ago and washed and greased all the bearings.  (there was more than a little sand in the crank.  I re-assembled the bike and added a new stem with a straight bar.  Now I am trying to decide whether I blast and powder coat the whole thing, or leave it as kind of a rat.  I have become a little attached to the rollfast sticker on the vertical tube, and would hate to lose that.  On the other hand a flat black frame with a flat white fork/bar/and crank would look pretty good.  Decisions......

rusty chain for character? or am i just being cheap?

really having fun with the coaster brake- just like my old huffy bmx!

can't see the fork because it's so thin..scary 

cool geometry

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Custom motored bikes

I just discovered this web site- the company is based here in Milwaukee.  It looks like they stock the motors and all the parts.  This might have to be one of my next projects.....maybe.  Pretty cool though- and cheap.  I'm sure its all overseas parts.....


http://custommotoredbicycles.com/home

New project bike!

I just bought an old Rollfast single speed bike with a coaster brake. The plan is to blast the frame and powder coat. I'm hoping to find another donor bike for parts. I'm thinking dark green with all black components. We'll see....

back out mountain biking

now that school is done for the summer I've been trying to get out into the woods to do as much biking as I can.

Andy and I got out to Baird's in Green Bay a few times already.  We revisited the hill that wrecked him last year, so we had to take a quick picture.

park in cedarburg

the bridge over I43 north of Grafton

Tara, the kids and I have also been riding the interurban trail a lot in the last few weeks.  The single speed that I converted is working great for this, and Ava is really loving the ibert seat.