Recent content by Joe Judd

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The benefit of building from scratch is you can build it any size you want. Being an ex-frame builder, I always built using the metric system. This bike is about a 54cm [21.25 inches] measuring the top tube [level] center to center.

The original design was for 700c road wheels but it was hard to find a cheap pair of 700c disk wheels that use skewers so I opened up the rear to 135 mm and used a set of 26 inch wheels. Building with disk brakes and thru axles is new to me. Just the amount of thru axle styles and dropouts is...

I've built mostly lugged road bikes before under the Judd Cycles name. Being retired, I only just puts around the shop but always wanted to build a beach cruiser. It's the most difficult bike to build not being able to raleigh on straight off the shelf tubing although Columbus chain stays and...