Rock Lobster Al-Road

[jdp211]

So I've been on Paul's list since ~October, and got an email this week that he's ready to start welding. Going to be an aluminum 650b all-road/bikepacking type thing. Room for 48s and fenders, steel fork with all sorts of screwy pimples and whatnot. Di2, internal dynamo lighting, yadda yadday... It'll be another 6 weeks or so before I have it in hand, but the frame is mostly done, looks like.

Anyway, you guys probably just want pics





(Mostly) Finished:


9/4 update: Took some decent pics of the thing:

Originally Posted by jdp211

Finally had a my camera, bike, and sun in the same place at the same time, so I took a whole bunch of pics of things

[Andy sti]

Clearance! Very awesome.

[Mzilliox]

Hells to the yes!

[jcs7282]

Oh my. Looking forward to more...

[jdp211]

Fork's looking good. Based on the timeline Paul gave me, I should have this in hand early April

[jdp211]

Progress!

[R3awak3n]

Sweet!

[jdp211]

This is currently in a box and headed my way!

[seanile]

what's your crank situation that it clears those fattys?

[jdp211]

Originally Posted by seanile

what's your crank situation that it clears those fattys?

Long wheelbase, mostly. I'll be running a regular old Ultegra 50/34

[sandyrs]

So good

[livesadventure]

Wow! That's going to look so good covered in dirt and bags !


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[2000m2]

Gorgeous, very cool bike. Look forward to seeing it built up!

[CMiller]

http://rocklobstershop.blogspot.com/...uter-with.html

Nice blog entry about the bike!

"This is what custom frames are all about in my opinion. Just try to find something like this in a store-or anywhere, for that matter ! An aluminum frame that can take a tapered fork, Di II, fenders and generator lights F&R. Here it is- with a steel fork made for a special rack that has a straight steerer with a converter crown race to fit the oversize headset. Not only that, the color is a chocolate brown with some coarse gold metalflake. The only conservative touch are the original black and yellow logos, just like the ones on bikes I built in the mid '80's. I really hop that the customer in Brooklyn , N.Y. is happy with the work I did to make all these ideas become a reality."

[jdp211]

Thanks all!

Still going to be a few weeks before it's all built up. As soon as I get the frameset, I'm shipping the fork off to Eric at Winter Bicycles to have a rack and bag made. Other than that, I have most of the parts in hand.