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We rode 47 miles on Sunday. Beautiful sunny day and my new Miss Eggplant rode beautifully!! I'm in love. The shifting works like a dream and I like how the handle bars are. Many options to move my hands around. I feel the frame is perfect..I still might raise the seat just a tiny bit. Both Rodney and I were very moved by how you are just the same as when we first met you. Your working space in your garage, the simplicity, the ease, comfort and genuine being you are. We much appreciate that especially in this crazy world we live in these days. Take care and thank you -G [gallery columns="4" ids="2048,2049,2044,2045"]

We recently built this custom titanium electric mountain bike for a 6'8" gentleman who has been living in Cambodia. We got the pleasure of getting to work with him and found him very interesting. He chose many years ago to move to Southeast Asia. He has developed a career in advertising and has lived in Vietnam and Cambodia. .

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This was a really cool project. We recently built this custom titanium electric mountain bike for a local Boulder cyclist who is 6'4", but with extremely long legs. His legs were as long as the average 6'9" customer but his torso was similar to someone who is 6'2". This posed a very interesting design challenge, and on top of that, he needed a very upright riding position to keep his neck and back comfortable. Instead of building the bike with a super long head tube and a custom suspension fork with extra long steering tube, we used the new Fox 38 e-bike optimized 180mm travel fork to help get the front end high enough for the rider to be comfortable.