The New Deal

"What do you mean you don't use lugs!?!?!?"

Tonic Fab operates out of a small, cramped garage. In the summer we are hot, and in the winter we are cold. Metal chips litter the floor, along with C-clamps, beer cans, fixturing and raw materials. Care must be taken to avoid injury while navigating our impossibly tiny space. We are considering submiting photos of our working conditions to a local NGO...who knows what sort of aid our shop would qualify us for? Maybe a tetanus shot clinic? Maybe we could get a grant to install running water?

Sweatshop style working conditions aside, we've managed to get some Fall Guys done.
These are the latest version, and feature:

1) Same old geometry. This seems to be working of people.

2) Same old colors. Baby Blue, Green, and Gray. Here's a shot of the Colors.JPG

3) Integrated Style head tubes. The same as 99% of decent BMX frames. The final 1% is reserved for Stricker's signature model. If Stricker ever wants a Fall Guy, he can have a standard HT...

4)Mid-BB. Compatible with any 3/4" spindle BMX crank. Like Profiles. Not like Primos.


The frames will be coming with headsets and BB's installed. The headset top cap will be painted to match the frame, and the BB will be a genuine Profile Mid-BB kit with the Hop-Up caps painted to match the frame as well. This looks really nice.

The Bad news is that we are raising the price of the frames.

New Price: $650 (this includes headset and BB)

We are also going to offer a parts package deal for people building up Fall Guys.

For $1050 you get:

Frame /headset/BB

Fork: Manitou Gold Label 80mm /20mm thru axle

Seat Post: Thomson 26.8 / 330mm

Tonic is taking deposits and color choices as of now.

A deposit is 20% down

Moving on....

Tonic was invited to attend the first annual Portland Bike Builder show at City Hall last week. Organized by bikeportland.org, pictures here.

Very attended, and nice to meet with the public. Vanilla was there, showing some very nice looking stuff, especially that trike!

Here's a blurry shot of our table. Notice the completed Integrated Bike, and some of the small parts we use on the Fall Guy in both the raw, and finished forms. tonictable.JPG

What else? I'm broken, a sprained knee will keep me from riding my Fall Guy in the near future, but things could be worse.

Now for a couple riding photos: One is Nic showing nice form over a hip on his new Fall Guy. The other is Doss having fun on his Fall Guy in some shady areas. In both senses of the term.