Last fall, I stopped by Gallus Cycles in Fort Worth to see what Jeremy Schlacter was working on. Jeremy hand builds (brazes) bike frames, and his work has been turning heads at the Southwest Swap Meet and NAHBS. He studied framebuilding with Doug Fattic and Koichi Yamaguchi, and he’s been making frames ever since, without power tools.
Jeremy is a great, modest guy, and he has a real passion for riding and building. I’d like to own one of his bikes, someday.
Here are a few photos, and you can see the rest on Flickr.
Fork crown with threaded rack mounts.
shop detritus:
Brazed, flux-covered bottom bracket:
Hand files:
Super clean, belt drive, fixed gear:
Custom-machined belt-drive dropout for the white fixed-gear:
Seat mast with invisible clamp mechanism — see if you can figure out how it works:
Stainless-steel, travel-ready randoneurring bike that Jeremy rode for 70+ hours in Paris-Brest-Paris this year:
stainless crown detail: