BIKES
I've been fascinated with and passionate about mountain biking since i got my first real mountain bike in high school. While like most kids I grew up riding my bike around the neighborhood, I didn't really find my deep interest in it until college. I started riding with friends on local trails, and gradually my career choice started melding with my hobby and I've wanted to pursue building bikes ever since.
In 2016 I finally took the jump and started designing and building my own bikes. In addition to the frames, I also designed and fabricated my own tooling and custom frame components.
My frames have been forward geometry based “Enduro” style hard tail 29ers. I’ve really enjoyed the challenges that come with short stays, larger wheel sizes and learning about bike geometry and fit. I developed a chainstay yoke to help solve clearance issues at the crank, which later got a second version, that has now also been used by several other builders. Additionally I’ve designed several dropout sets that are now in production with Lichen Precision and being sold to other builders on bikefabsupply.com.
In addition to the bike components, I also designed and fabricated a tubing bender to bend the 4130 tubing used on the frames for the chainstays and seat tubes. I also designed and built my frame jig, and stay mitering jig.
I finished up my second frame for my wife this year as well and feel like it came out really well and have enjoyed playing more with design details. I have other frames in the queue, but time has been the limiting factor and I look forward to working on more frames soon. In the meantime, I’m also working on developing a full suspension design in Linkage that I hope to fabricate as well.
Below are pictures of the process including the build of the tooling and the frame.
Custom Parts
I started Quiver Design Works as a way to have an outlet for my bike and fabrication interests. So far that’s included some custom furniture work, but primarily focused on the components I designed for my personal frames and offering those parts to other builders.
I’ve partnered with Devin Bodony at Lichen Precision for manufacturing my parts and we’ve also worked to offer the parts to other builders.
We both are passionate about bikes. Devin’s history and experience in the production environment blended really well with my experience on the Design and Engineering side of things.
Our current custom part line up includes the following:
QDW-Yoke – Machined from 1019 cold roll steel, designed to allow for a 27.5 Plus x 3.0” or 29 x 2.5” Tire with 420mm stays (less if plus fitment isn’t required). Maintaines clearance for a 34T Chainring based around boost spacing and standard 73mm Bottom Bracket.
QDW/Ventana Slider Dropouts – After some discussions with Ventana Bikes, we got permission to use their dropout inserts and make a steel hooded receiver. Only hooded steel rocker style dropout out there right now that will be available to frame builders.
QDW Fixed Drops – 12 mm through axle fixed dropouts with options for desired brake system. Flat mount, Iso, or post mount options
These can be found on the Lichen Precision Store (lichenmfg.com/shop) or through Bikefabsupply.com (Some of the links may still be getting loaded here.)
Below are some pictures of some of these projects as well as my instagram feed (@quiverdesignworks). Some of my side projects are also featured that aren’t always bike related!
