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Pogward Bicycle Industries: April 2014
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Wednesday, 16 April 2014. I may have mentioned that I was not 100% happy with the forks on the Fatness, the biggest issue being the steerer tube flexing quite disconcertingly under load. This was because I used straight gauge 4130 where I should have used a proper butted tube. Various tiresome things have got in the way of doing anything about it, but now things have progressed. This stalled things because I want 100% confidence in something as stressed as a fork and I fell into framebuilders funk. Some ...
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Pogward Bicycle Industries: December 2012
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Tuesday, 4 December 2012. Ancient Skills Revived and An Amusing Anecdote. Actual movement occurs in the world of Pogward bicycle building, mostly because I finally bit the bullet and purchased a lovely little oxy acetylene plant pictured here in fresh and pristine condition, full to the brim with compressed oxygen and dissolved/compressed acetylene;. I am now happy with fillets and such;. But I am less happy with my ability to get the braze to wick down inside fundamental joints like the fork crown;.
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Pogward Bicycle Industries: Mist Green and Monstertrucking
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Thursday, 1 May 2014. Mist Green and Monstertrucking. So, having been pretty satisfied with the performance of the new forks in a wide variety of situations, and becoming pretty annoyed at how quickly the current weather was rusting things up, I dropped the frame off to my favourite powdercoating. Outfit on Monday. I checked in on it halfway through the week and while it was definitely coloured in the manner I wanted, it wasn't as industrial as I required, so we decided on another coat of clear matt.
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Pogward Bicycle Industries: January 2013
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Saturday, 19 January 2013. A Circumhorizontal arc, Mammatus, and a set of forks. At last the long awaited Himalayan-like pinnacle of frame building has arrived, actual brazing! I also managed to get silver pretty much everywhere, and spent a fair chunk of time cleaning all that off. This gave me an excuse to buy some more tools, to be exact a set of rifflers. All through this I spent a lot. If I didn't know any better, I would say that these look like a fairly convincing set of forks. I have a few things...
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Pogward Bicycle Industries: October 2014
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Wednesday, 1 October 2014. Shift up, slow down. Alrighty then, it has been a while. I have wanted to move away from suburbia for a long while now, and had droned on to my wife for so long that I got an 'Ah just do whatever you want' response. As everyone knows this is secret woman code for 'I have a happy and enthusiastic acceptance of your charming if somewhat alarming foibles, and shall follow you to the ends of the earth my love'. So we packed things up and moved 385kms away to Nelson. The beginnings ...
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Pogward Bicycle Industries: Fork it
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Wednesday, 16 April 2014. I may have mentioned that I was not 100% happy with the forks on the Fatness, the biggest issue being the steerer tube flexing quite disconcertingly under load. This was because I used straight gauge 4130 where I should have used a proper butted tube. Various tiresome things have got in the way of doing anything about it, but now things have progressed. This stalled things because I want 100% confidence in something as stressed as a fork and I fell into framebuilders funk. Some ...
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Pogward Bicycle Industries: August 2013
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Saturday, 10 August 2013. Well what can I say, this thing is probably as finished as it will ever be now, short of some different brakes if I can find anything suitable, and just possibly dismantling the rear hub and polishing the housing so the finish matches the front hub - this might be excessively anal though. I have discovered some latent OCD in the last few months, so who knows. Anyway, lets let the pics tell the story. Friday, 2 August 2013. A complete Pogward, Thursday last. More of the same.
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Pogward Bicycle Industries: April 2013
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Tuesday, 16 April 2013. Now with added Randonneur. A few weeks have passed in a blissful state of commute, the weather has been pretty spectacular and the winds kind. I have also gradually increased my fitness levels such that atop the trusty Surly I made it to the top of Dyers Pass without stopping once, and even passed someone! Admittedly she had a good decade on me and admitted that she was quite hungover, but still, take the victories as they come I say. Contact Dave at Velo Ideale. They were put on ...
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Pogward Bicycle Industries: May 2014
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Thursday, 1 May 2014. Mist Green and Monstertrucking. So, having been pretty satisfied with the performance of the new forks in a wide variety of situations, and becoming pretty annoyed at how quickly the current weather was rusting things up, I dropped the frame off to my favourite powdercoating. Outfit on Monday. I checked in on it halfway through the week and while it was definitely coloured in the manner I wanted, it wasn't as industrial as I required, so we decided on another coat of clear matt.
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Pogward Bicycle Industries: October 2013
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Tuesday, 22 October 2013. MIG, TIG, Jig. Much has been happening, with the focus being on jigs and fixtures rather than actual framebuilding, but a wee bit of mitering snuck in regardless. First up; the last frame jig mod. Rear spacers to bring the dropouts to 170mm, awkward little blighters with an M10x1.0 thread on the inside to match the axle, and an M10x1.5 to take a standard bolt on the outside. This is because I do not have a 170mm skewer. Sorted, give or take a bit of setup time. Simply wasn't mak...
