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What a great time! Great bikes, great people and a great beer! I can certainly say I lacked in the photo taking department.

Swapped out the saddle for one slightly older, built some wheels, and hung a few more parts on it… inching closer. Though right in the middle of moving house, so this bike realistically shouldn’t be this close to being done… I just can’t wait!

Beauty! I love what you’ve done with it, and that it’s getting nice and dirty! Though you must have got it off of Dave!

He used to teach a frame building school through a local university, it ended and he retired with the pandemic, but he spread his knowledge through there, and continues to do so through his YouTube channel full of instructional videos! His book is well worth a read for a great telling of his...

A bit more cleaning, a lot of time wasted searching for a spare Shimano 600 headset I know I have… as I couldn’t locate it I went with a similar yet slightly older Dura-Ace model. Starting to hang a few parts off of it now, it’s nice to build a bike with the wear and patina of this one as I...

Oh yah, and thanks to Woodsie a screenshot from the Romax series of videos by Paul shows the beginning of Pauls notebook on Brodie serial numbers! This frame 115 being July 4th 1986, 18.5” and listed as “Trials” Paul has commented that it should be sporting a 73 degree headtube! Should be...

Luckily with little effort the BB cup and the stem popped out, no problem! The fork even cleaned up quite nicely! Now I’ll just dedicate a bit of time to cleaning up the frame/fork/stem, addressing any spots of corrosion, and absolutely maintaining the original paint & patina.

I did do a quick tear down of the bike and started to scrub some mold, grime, crust off of the frame set. Initially the driveside BB cup and stem weren’t cooperating so I left them to finesse out when time was on my side.

Anyways consider myself shocked to see serial number 115! Paul Brodie started out at Rocky Mountain in 1984 and built 113 frames under their roof through May 1986. In July 1986 out on his own in his own workshop (a few blocks from where I currently live), he built his first bike under his new...

I definitely did not want, nor could I accommodate the entire pile… but I reached out, he dug the bike I desired out of the pile and I made my way there after dinner. I didn’t know immediately what I was looking at in the ad but was pretty certain it was an early-ish Brodie… turns out I was...

After a period of being super occupied with no time to spend on bikes, I got an e-mail alert while making dinner for the family. A new Craigslist ad of a crusty hoard of bikes… I had a sec inmy dinner prep and scanned the ad, pretty quickly something popped out!

I’m not entirely familiar with the earlier years, but I believe the Sherpa ones were production models they brought into Canada in the earliest years like 82(?) or 83-85ish? Not entirely sure when Rocky acquired Norman Hills production facility which brought Derek Bailey who had been building...

By 1986 Rocky was using the thin lined decals with the thin drop shadow behind them, that version lasted for a few years into the late eighties… I think these decals were commonly used on 84/85 bikes? I have a similar track bike with the same lug cutaway behind the headtube, and then a road...

Guessing it’s this beauty that just recently popped up over on the Island?

Fantastic!

I consider it just a custom Trials, though the name Weasel has definitely been used for it. I’ve decided to keep it without any model decals that’s not my job to decide… Definitely consider the Weasel to be the more radical BB height 24” version with gears. Of which I’ve only seen a picture...

I think maybe for the second time!