Contacting me

It was great meeting everyone at NAHBS in Richmond. We realized a little too late that the cards we were giving out had a very hard-to-read rendering of my email. Then when we tried to fix it with a replacement set of cards, Kinkos used the wrong file and there was no fix. The address is keller.ee at gmail.com. Or you can email kellercycles at gmail.com.

I emailed kelleree at gmail and realized I already owned the address, so that's good.

I offered to help some people with powder coating, drop me a line. I'm pretty sure I can get a poka-dot powder coat if that's what you want.

What this is about

This blog exists to document my bicycle frame building efforts. I might post some about my riding as well. First a little history. I started building bicycle frames in the mid '70s when I was still in high school. A few years later, Trek was just starting up and I dropped out of my engineering studies and worked for them brazing frames. I recently realized that most people see them as a large company that imports bikes that someone else makes for them. I still remember them as a small company with less than 20 people working out of a small industrial building in rural Wisconsin (they call it "the red barn" for some reason). We used traditional techniques to build lugged steel frames in a low-rate production environment.


Later I went back to school and eventually earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering. However, I always considered myself a framebuilder, and now I'm starting a business building frames.