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Know what's cool? FTW is helping to design tubes for a new tubing mill down in Connecticut. Starting next week all of our tubes will be designed by us and made by us down in CT, a mere 160 miles from where we weld the bikes. New Dream Bikes coming soon!

I know this thing is built up by now. Pictures, please sir.

I'm superstoked to hear about all of the new Ritchey bikes. I have 200,000 miles on my Road Logic!

That's the team paint scheme circa 1999, IIRC. One of my favorites. IF really used to have it, if you know what I mean.

White Brothers have a suspension fork in the works. Made in the USA!

No shit?

at least get some wider bars. Lower might be good too. It's not climbing so hot because you don't have enough "of an oar to paddle with".

Ah! That bike is from the first pre-pro run of the Ridge 2.0 frames we made right after Interbike 2004(I was working with Sinister then). I spent a solid 4 days riding DH at Bootleg Canyon outside Las Vegas after the show. That bike had a 7" sherman singlecrown on it. It was really...

Nah, some FTW made Lauterwasser-style bars, clearly. fact: Lee has Frank doing a ton of really cool stuff right now.

This is how it should have looked all along!

I won't spoil it for you but it's turning into something pretty cool!

That's your Limongi? I think Toby at Hot Tubes has the frame right now touching up the paint. It's going to be sweet methinks.

Skip just started working here. He used to work at Yeti in Durango. He wanted me to share his screwdriver with y'all. Frank-U-Trax Forx have moved closer to the door. They'll be available in the standard accutrax lengths(even a few 1.25" threaded ones!) as well as longer lengths for...

Frank got into vintage road bikes a few years ago. Here's a super massaged Stronglite/TA crankset he's working on for a mid-70's weight-weenie project; So-Frank has a suspension patent that I'm not allowed to talk about... Here's a 5 year old proto of a bike that you never saw, OK...

Re: Yeti back ends Loop stays are a real pain in the butt to make. After Frank makes tooling to bend it and wastes a few pieces of metal getting right you're not going to like the price. Chris Herting at 3D racing has been doing loop stay stuff lately though. He's going to want to weld...

Celtic stickers are the only thing that aren't NOS. I'm waiting on a fresh set from the printers. When they're in I'll Facebook it- Should be next week at the latest. -m

That's FANTASTIC oldschool Indy paint. Jealous! I'd go with z2's. They've held up under the test of time, performance and reliability wise v. my old SIDs by a considerable margin.

Yeah. We were originally going to blast the logos into the frame with the trans over it but then I realized that it was a team bike, so more visible stickers was probably a good idea. I'm experimenting with pre-heat temperatures and etching degreasers on team frames to see if we can dial in...

We powder or Ano- wet paint is too expensive, toxic and fragile for my preferences. Semi retro content: That blue frame is a 650b bike for Tammy Jacques Grewal. She's making a comeback and wanted something racier than her Erriksen. FTW built her bikes in the early 90's so we were a...

I was on a team sponsored by Rocky in 2001. We broke every element and vertex we had. I worked at a Rocky dealer the next season and all of the sc7000 frames we sold broke too. Chris at 3d had almost all of his Scandium frames break prematurely, every builder I've ever shot the shit with...