I just got these awesome bowls in the mail called Ooma Bowls from a fellow named Thomas Both. Thomas is a friend of a friend and needed a typeface for his company, Cube and Corner. Eventually Neighbourhood was chosen as the typeface and Thomas got in touch with me about making a trade – use of Neighbourhood in exchange for some bowls. I agreed, and finally got my bowl in the mail today. This thing is pretty neat. The whole idea is that it’s made for “tableless” dining, as more often than not we are eating food on the go. Check out the Cube and Corner website to read more about the bowl, and apparently you can now pick them up at the SFMOMA as well.

Frame: Miele Lupa, mid 80’s (powdercoated off white)
Fork: Alien track fork
Stem: 80mm Nitto Pearl
Bars: Soma Noah’s arc
Grips: Yoshida Champ
Cranks: Sugino RD-2
Pedals: MKS Sylvan track + toe clips
Seat: Brooks team professional
Seatpost: Kalloy
Headset: Generic
Hubs: Paul FHUB (front), 1970’s Fichtel & Sachs Komet coaster brake hub (rear)
Rims: Mavic OpenPro
Tires: Vitorria Zefir 22’s

Thanks a million to everyone who helped me put this bike together.

Got some Redwing 875’s as a gift over the holidays (!!!).

Here are some things that are on my desk right now.

1) A lovely christmas card illustrated by Jane Koo. (I think this is the greatest illustration ever, needs a frame).

2) A little notebook sent to me from Mark Caneso from pprwrkstudio. Mark also runs PSType.

3) The handbill for the Group Hug New Years Eve show that Byron Kopman brought by for me.

My buddy Mark at Rain City Bikes just built up my rear wheel for me. I picked it up tonight and am super stoked on how it turned out. I threw on a tire when I got home and took some pictures. Hit the jump for a couple more pictures.

Mark building up the wheel after hours, thanks!

Detail shot of the coaster brake. Just to reiterate, it’s a Mavic open pro rim (36h) laced to a vintage Sachs coaster brake hub.

I’m writing this after getting back from an epic game of doubles ping pong with David Lang, Tom Chung, and Harrison Boyce. I don’t want to blow the spot, but the Gage residency in UBC has awesome ping pong tables for students to use, and it’s super easy to just walk in and use them. Anyway, Harrison was nice enough to hook up one of the shirts he made for Defgrip (the website Harrison runs for those unfamiliar). If you aren’t familiar with Defgrip I suggest you check it out. Hit the jump to check out the custom stamp tag.

Some of the stuff I ordered through my friend Mark at Rain City Bikes has started to come through and it’s looking really good. The wheels are coming together and I’m getting pretty excited about the build. Pictured above are Mavic Open Pro rims, 36 hole for the rear and 32 hole for the front – silver.

This is the hub I got for the front. A Paul FHUb. You might remember my post from awhile back, I picked up a Sachs Komet coaster brake hub for the rear from Ride On. I think these are going to be the nicest and funnest set of wheels I’ve ever built up.

Salvaged the Shimano 600 pedals off my old build and gave them some new life. Polished them, repacked the bearings and got some new leather straps.

I ordered a 32 hole Hi-stop coaster brake hub online the other day, but came across this freshly re-built vintage Sachs Komet hub yesterday and had to get it. I suppose I’ll build up the 36 hole Sachs hub and have the Hi-Stop kicking around.

Slowly but surely the parts are coming together. Just picked up a pair of Vittoria Zefir 22’s at Campione.