Matt Dunn’s Mountain Bike
Head tube (before gusset)
Internal cable port (rubber grommet fits in hole)
Large tire clearance
UDH dropout before brake mount
Forward facing seat tube cut (cut only finished after bike is finished to maintain round shape)
Seat stays coming next
All the steel pieces. The chainstays will be custom cut and bent out of the long dark tube
bottle bosses in the DT ready for solder
Soldered bottle bosses
Cutting the dropper post internal routing slot
Brazed-in dropper post routing, to be cleaned, cut, and detail arrow added later
Dry-fit
Dry-fit of front triangle ready to be tack welded
Ready to weld the chainstay
Chainstay setup
Tacked chainstays
Double-checking tire clearance (29x3.0" on 50mm rims)
Seat stays mitered and ready to weld
Welded, ready to blast
Welded, ready to blast
Cleaned and blasted
Cleaned and blasted
Cleaned and blasted
Painted
Painted. The serial number plate is first painted with the main color and then sanded back to a brass shine, leaving the embossed numbers in purple.
At the usual photoshoot site: Tunnel Drive. Wide, flat trails with stratified rock, a tunnel, and the Arkansas River, and all within a few minutes of town make this a prime spot for gravel and MTB photos
The finished product
The finished product