If you're not into pink mauve camo fabric, I just got in an order of black VX21, black V51, and have a lot of blue VX42 around still.
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Pink Camo Krampus
This one is too good not to share.
If you're not into pink mauve camo fabric, I just got in an order of black VX21, black V51, and have a lot of blue VX42 around still.
If you're not into pink mauve camo fabric, I just got in an order of black VX21, black V51, and have a lot of blue VX42 around still.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Summer!
The infamous Jr year of Mechanical Engineering school is finally over.
Here's a few pictures from recent rides and a sweet new frame bag and bike recovery project.
Yes, that is a turbocharger turned into a homemade jet turbine engine mounted to a barbecue - quite the exciting Thermodynamics project. We cooked 14 hotdogs in about a minute.
I found a new long way home through the desert, and successfully turned a 3 mile commute into a 15 mile commute.
Finals week extra long way home!
Here is the third Australia bound Niner frame bag, and the fifth of my frame bags in Australia.
The Moots YBB below was found by my wife's uncle with an excavator in a lake..... after checking with Moots, the National Bike Registry, and the police where the frame was found, I'm going to build it up and ride it until it breaks..... note the dent in the down tube where the excavator pulled it out...
You might also be interested in the pink camo frame bag. That bag is actually for a customer's steel cyclocross bike, but it just happened to fit on the Moots.
I'm also making a pink camo frame bag for customer's Surly Krampus!
I'll be working during the day at a Mechanical Engineering internship in the defense sector, and sewing part time, which should be easier without homework!
Happy Summer!
Here's a few pictures from recent rides and a sweet new frame bag and bike recovery project.
Yes, that is a turbocharger turned into a homemade jet turbine engine mounted to a barbecue - quite the exciting Thermodynamics project. We cooked 14 hotdogs in about a minute.
I found a new long way home through the desert, and successfully turned a 3 mile commute into a 15 mile commute.
Finals week extra long way home!
Here is the third Australia bound Niner frame bag, and the fifth of my frame bags in Australia.
The Moots YBB below was found by my wife's uncle with an excavator in a lake..... after checking with Moots, the National Bike Registry, and the police where the frame was found, I'm going to build it up and ride it until it breaks..... note the dent in the down tube where the excavator pulled it out...
You might also be interested in the pink camo frame bag. That bag is actually for a customer's steel cyclocross bike, but it just happened to fit on the Moots.
I'm also making a pink camo frame bag for customer's Surly Krampus!
I'll be working during the day at a Mechanical Engineering internship in the defense sector, and sewing part time, which should be easier without homework!
Happy Summer!
Monday, April 1, 2013
Australia
Look closely, there's two Cleaveland Mountaineering frame bags on this trip in Australia. One on a Yeti and one on a Specialized Epic.
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http://blog.neilennis.com/?p=3711
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Spring Break
Spring Break - a bit of backpacking with my lovely wife, some sewing, homework, and even mechanic work on the air brake system of a huge front end loader.
First the part you all care about:
A Tour Divide bound frame bag for an XL El Mariachi, made tough with #10 WR zips all around, heavy VX51 fabric, fully padded tube panels, and a custom dual compartment with the lower diagonal pocket meant for carrying a bladder. There is a hydration tube exit port at the front below the top tube, or of course it can come out the zipper opening too.
Here is the only other frame bag I've made like this one.
Wifey and I went for an overnight hike earlier this week, to Rattlesnake Arches and beyond. Last September we got engaged on this trail, and never made it all the way in to the arches.
How to make a two person 800 fill down sleeping bag for $13:
Take your homemade quilt and your Mountain Hardwear Phantom 32, and buy another #5 two way separating sleeping bag zipper. Sew the zipper onto the quilt, and poof - there you have it. Cheap and easy.
After hiking to the arches and attempting to sleep on one sleeping pad, the next morning we descended into the canyon and hiked down to the Colorado River.
We did bring two sleeping pads, but I still need to sew a sleeve to hold them together - cord didn't work.
Sorry, no pictures of the front end loader mechanics.
A few weeks ago I rode to the end of Butterknife, and rode up West Bangs Canyon Rd to the Tabeguache Trail. After riding up to there in perfect dry trail conditions, I got on the Tabeguache which was in the shade and covered in mud and slush. A couple hours of muddy slushy hike a bike is refreshing. Then wifey was nice enough to pick me up in Whitewater so I didn't have to ride US 50 back in the dark.
First the part you all care about:
A Tour Divide bound frame bag for an XL El Mariachi, made tough with #10 WR zips all around, heavy VX51 fabric, fully padded tube panels, and a custom dual compartment with the lower diagonal pocket meant for carrying a bladder. There is a hydration tube exit port at the front below the top tube, or of course it can come out the zipper opening too.
Here is the only other frame bag I've made like this one.
Wifey and I went for an overnight hike earlier this week, to Rattlesnake Arches and beyond. Last September we got engaged on this trail, and never made it all the way in to the arches.
How to make a two person 800 fill down sleeping bag for $13:
Take your homemade quilt and your Mountain Hardwear Phantom 32, and buy another #5 two way separating sleeping bag zipper. Sew the zipper onto the quilt, and poof - there you have it. Cheap and easy.
After hiking to the arches and attempting to sleep on one sleeping pad, the next morning we descended into the canyon and hiked down to the Colorado River.
We did bring two sleeping pads, but I still need to sew a sleeve to hold them together - cord didn't work.
Sorry, no pictures of the front end loader mechanics.
A few weeks ago I rode to the end of Butterknife, and rode up West Bangs Canyon Rd to the Tabeguache Trail. After riding up to there in perfect dry trail conditions, I got on the Tabeguache which was in the shade and covered in mud and slush. A couple hours of muddy slushy hike a bike is refreshing. Then wifey was nice enough to pick me up in Whitewater so I didn't have to ride US 50 back in the dark.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Everything Bags!
We're now testing out Everything Bags mounted to undrilled and suspension forks.
Large P clamps are hard to find - we had to order them in bulk from Grainger, so you can get them with your Everything Bag order for an extra $10 per bag.
They're great for extra water in the desert, stuff sacks of camping gear, a Thermos on a cold day....
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Large P clamps are hard to find - we had to order them in bulk from Grainger, so you can get them with your Everything Bag order for an extra $10 per bag.
They're great for extra water in the desert, stuff sacks of camping gear, a Thermos on a cold day....
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Sunshine and Seatbags
My wife needed to recertify her Wilderness First Responder training, so it was a good excuse for a trip to Lake City. Temperatures were predicted to be really cold, with barely any snow. Time for a bike ride to a peak climb.
Away I cruised, with temps around -12 F to ride the 13 miles of snow covered pavement and dirt to the bottom of the Winter Route up Sunshine (14,001 ft). Near the end of the ride, I came across either a bobcat or a lynx in the road, who quickly got shy and hid in the willows!
I stashed the bike at the bottom and got hiking...
Notice the new seat bag with blue VX42 fabric. There's 5 of them in production - order now!
A big hill without much snow on it followed.
near the top, but still a ways away, I made the call to turn around, I was moving really slow, was near official turn around time, and not feeling quite perfect, so down I went... no summit but a really good day in the mountains.
There's something nice about riding a bike with an ice axe.
Away I cruised, with temps around -12 F to ride the 13 miles of snow covered pavement and dirt to the bottom of the Winter Route up Sunshine (14,001 ft). Near the end of the ride, I came across either a bobcat or a lynx in the road, who quickly got shy and hid in the willows!
I stashed the bike at the bottom and got hiking...
Notice the new seat bag with blue VX42 fabric. There's 5 of them in production - order now!
A big hill without much snow on it followed.
near the top, but still a ways away, I made the call to turn around, I was moving really slow, was near official turn around time, and not feeling quite perfect, so down I went... no summit but a really good day in the mountains.
There's something nice about riding a bike with an ice axe.
Monday, January 7, 2013
Wedding Adventures!
We're finally married and having fun with it. Here's a few pictures from the adventures of the last few weeks: Honeymoon in Castle Valley, Utah, then offwidth climbing in Escalante Canyon. We're getting settled and getting back to work, sewing, and tutoring.
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