Tamarack Cycles

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Another new Tamarack custom frame, back from paint. This one is an all-roads/gravel disc brake, Reynolds 853 Pro Team frameset built to clear 650b x 48’s or 700c x 42 tires, the paint is DuPont Imron “Las Vegas Gold Metallic” with metallic black panels and crown. Built with silver brazed lugged construction, it features internal routing for the rear disc brake through the down tube, and wide clearances for big tires. This one is up for purchase. Designed with a 6-degree sloping top tube, it’s the equivalent of a 56cm level seat tube (actual seat tube is 51cm CTC) with a 54cm top tube - call it a “medium” in today’s language. Stack = 570, reach = 370, head angle 71.5, seat angle 73, full geometry deets available upon request. Interested? Contact me…

Finished spraying some clearcoat on a couple of new Tamarack framesets today - here’s a few sneak peeks from the spray booth…

One of my steel progeny made its way back home this week - built in 1997 (eeek, 29 years ago!), this one was commissioned by a former co-worker at my ex-shop - his nickname became “Cruiser Jim” for a while! This one is a mix of Reynolds 531 and 753, with a “lo-pro” curved top tube and a second top tube, with fastback seatcluster, a Kona Project Two fork, and a retro paint scheme. The last 15 years, Jim’s been more into Ducati’s and BMW 1000’s, and got tired of moving it around his garage, so he dropped it off to me. Looks like it’s going to get stripped, beadblasted, and resprayed to look like new again!

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So, the seatstay tops were sculpted, the stays brazed into place, the final braze-ons added, and Mark’s new Tamarack road frame is ready for paint. This one is built with Columbus Spirit tubing, some slightly-modified Richard Sachs lugs, a Long Shen flat-top crown, and stainless Paragon dropouts front and rear. Always satisfying to stamp the serial number on a completed frame build. Oh, wait, not completely ready for paint… I do have to buff the faces of the stainless dropouts and mask them off… oh well, tomorrow…

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