sorry, mimbres man, the frame has gone to an anonymous buyer....somebody is getting a damn nice x-mas present! also, some sweet fillets a put down today on michelle's bike. and i got an awesome stained glass window from jodi in virginia! she ownes a coconino mtb, and is getting her 2nd coconino soon, a road bike for the beautiful blue ridge mtns. thanks, jodi! nice work! steve.
howdy, all, thanks for tuning into the garro channel! been leaving the chair at home and walking every where! {with crutches, of course..} went to the doctor's office, p.t., the post office, the grocery store, coffee shop, all over! still cooking and building bikes in the chair. i'm still too sketchy for that stuff still. also cruising around with the "canadian" crutches, like the ones in the pic. this is great news, as it is MUCH easier to go places with out the chair. things are coming along! hard to belive that a year ago at garropalooza i weighed 115lbs and could only move one toe. what a crazy year...i don't expect anyone to even guess what it was like...alot of folks say it was a miracle, but that is pure 100% b.s., perseverence, stubbornness and work ethic are what it was/is. that and denise sticking with me and not giving up. so on to the pics: the frame in the jig is my sister-in-laws x-bike. it is sweeeeet! this one's going to the north american handmade bike show in san jose in march. the other frame is a full-on 700c cross/touring frame for sale. brand new. $700 painted any color you want. 18.5" seattube center to center. 23.5" effective tt. 1-speed or geared, handbent tt and ss's, full touring braze-ons and bottle opener. 3 bottle cages. sweeeet. e-mail me if you are interested at coconinocycles@yahoo.com also, a pic of me cruising around, and lastly, the "frankenbender" built for me by doug hall and his bro for some heavy-duty bending! rode budda beach the other day as well, but forgot the camera. rode up some near vertical slickrock on the handbike, and did the ride out-and-back from the little horse trailhead to the drop off to the creek and back, 3 1/2 hours total, it totally worked me, i could barely roll myself over or talk, went to bed by 6pm. whew! that shit is tough! once again, thanks for reading the crazy comic strip that is my life! rock on, steve.
first try in the kayak went really well! me & denise can build it in 30min. no problem, 1st try. stayed dry and warm, even though it was cold enough that what little of the lake that was unfrozen was re-freezing pretty rapidly. the only other folks in flag who thought it was a fine day for boatin' turned out to be brock and brian reibe, trying out brock's new fishing boat, he was hotrodding back and forth in the icefree zone with a 50 horse on his 14 ft. fishing boat. had a great time, saw 6 bald eagles, a heron and a bunch of ducks. can't wait to get it on some bigger warmer water. check out longhaulfoldingkayaks.com thay make some fine products! going armbiking today, post some pics later tonight! thanks for reading! steve.
here's a stack of frames kickin' around the shop waiting to go get some gravy applied! david k.'s xs mtb, bill f.'s 700c tour rig, and bruce l.'s xl 29er. that's why it's called "custom" later, steve.
went to sedona yesterday and did stutz/post trail as a sedona tryout. i'm sore! you can climb up impossibly steep stuff, or you are brawling with the rubble just struggling to scrabble along. good stuff! went down the "ditch trail" until the ditch got 12" wide and 5' deep and had to turn around, but was able to ride/scrabble out. burly! getting pretty strong! been building lots of bikes, probally realistically backed up a year. posted a shot of the armbike cockpit, folks wonder how it works. the black chest pad steers while you pedal, and the bars are for downhill. i made the h2o mount, and converted it to 7 speed, and put on the sweet bmx grips. i put thorn resistant slime tubes in all around, adding alot of weight to the rig, but flats really suck! later, steve.
