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I just uploaded about 70 new pics on flickr, wow October was a lot of fun and I got a bunch of bikes out the door. Dale from the UK got his frame and sent some pics. I got a new one out the door to Chris Y. Then of course we had the Obamabike. Also, I got some frames cranked out to Paul K who’s opening a new shop called Long Beach Fixed Gear (Long Beach, CA), as of this week he will have 3qty 56cm Rockcity frames in stock! Also, we got a plaid frame done for Henry in the UK.

I also got some great local press this month with a story on the front page on the Allston/Brighton Tab, the article also had some great pics.

Also a special thanks to Tiago from BU for taking a few sweet shots of me at the shop. I really love this one of me doing a rear wheel check with a sublimated deep-V.

As for some fun stuff myself and a few friends road out to ANT/Mike Flannigan’s open house. I think I got 2nd or 3rd place in the track stand contest! And as always thanks to Mike for some delicious Indian food.

Also, a few guys on Boston Fixed dragged me out of my cave (shop) to a fun Friday night, and then an awesome Sunday ride out to Castle Island in South Boston. This was probably the most fun day of the year for me, so thanks to everyone for that!

Then of course there were the Halloween race and rides. This was the third year I did the Toothrot race, which is always a blast. We had a few guys on some Geekhouse Rockcity’s. The afterparty was at the Otherside Cafe which is one of my favorite spots!

The next night was the last SCUL ride of the year, check out Skunk’s ship! And of course I had to dress up to match my ship, check out me as Frankendork!

Then finally last night was Bold Sprints, I listed a couple video’s on flickr. We also had a few Geekhouse Rockcity frames there as well.

Oh and last but not least…Kittens! Andrea and I adopted a couple kittens this month.

That’s it for now.

Thanks!

-Marty

October 15, 2008
NY, NY — The 2008 U.S. presidential election is less than three weeks away, but nothing is sewn up yet. To keep the momentum moving forward for Barack Obama, the candidate offering a better energy plan for the future than a cacophony of “Drill, baby, drill,” ANIMALNewYork.com’s Bucky Turco united the bike building expertise of Geekhouse founder Marty Walsh and the ‘wallpaper design’ talents of Dan Funderburgh to create this ONE OF A KIND track bike for auction. The exclusive fixed gear cycle is being offered on eBay beginning today and proceeds will be donated to the Barack Obama victory fund.

The hand built, Geekhouse Custom ‘Rockcity’ Frame measures 55cm, comes race ready with a nice array of parts, and sports a highly designed, curved seat tube. Walsh described his motivation to build the bike as a way to combat the country’s junkie-like addiction to petrol. “I think our country needs some serious change to get away from our dependency on foreign oil and oil in general. But more important than offshore drilling, we need to invest in ourselves and renewable energy sources. A small start to this is to simply ride a bike more. So I’d like to start our own chant: ‘Ride baby, ride!’’”

The distinctive bike also features custom sublimated graphics on the frame and Velocity Deep V wheel set, as well as an exclusive ‘Obama chainring’ logo on the front. Funderburgh’s attributes his inspiration for the design to the fiery unity speech Obama delivered at the 2004 DNC when he was still a candidate for the U.S. Senate that emphasized the need for the country to come together and abandon the ‘Red’ and ‘Blue ‘ state labels. “This speech was the first time in my life that I’ve been moved by the words of a living politician. I feel like the people I know are bored to death of cynicism and are willing to do everything in their power to see this momentary flicker of hope extend beyond November.” To emphasize this political ideal, the artist created the design with colors to representing our electoral spectrum using a blue to red gradient.

LINKS: The eBay auction can be found here and more press photos available here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220295559818 <http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=220295559818>

Official parts list:

-Velocity Deep-V Wheelset
-Thomson Stem and Post
-SDG Saddle
-Tioga Headset
-Sugino Messenger Cranks/Ring
-MKS Sylvan Track Pedals/Clips
-Continental Tires

About Geekhouse Bikes
Geekhouse Bikes is an independent bicycle manufacturer that hand crafts its custom frames in Boston, Massachusetts.
www.geekhousebikes.com <http://www.geekhousebikes.com>

About Dan Funderburgh
Dan Funderburgh is a Brooklyn-based graphic designer that specializes in creating elaborate patterns and what he describes as “wallpaper design.”
www.danfunderburgh.com <http://www.danfunderburgh.com>

About ANIMAL
ANIMAL is a magazine/website that is best described as a mix of underground culture, city-centric musings, and cultural epithets updated daily, providing compulsory reading for artists, writers, curators, creative peoples, (as well as editors, reporters, and brand people). www.animalnewyork.com <http://www.animalnewyork.com>

The past month has basically been spent with my head under a welding helmet. But I did manage to finally get a new whip. It’s not bright and colorful at the moment, but that will prob change soon. Also, I finally ended up getting my new powder coating oven delivered! There’s also some sneak shots on my flickr of a new collaboration frame I’m doing. This frame is getting our new sublimated finish as we speak and I should have some more pics and details of the project next week. Other than that Henry from the UK’s frame is also getting sublimated within the next week or so, did someone say plaid? Well that’s it for now, we’ve got a lot of fun projects coming up in the next couple of months and I can’t wait to get them out there. Stay tuned!

-Marty

A lot of great things happened last month and we now have a bunch of fun projects in the works. Our new sublimated finish as seen on Jesse’s bike went all over the interwebs. Check it out on Animal New York, Core 77, Cool Hunting, and High Snobiety.

Also this past month we worked with the City of Boston’s ‘Bike Fridays’ event and I even got a great photo of Mayor Menino holding one of our bikes. The Mayor is really pushing to make Boston a more bike friendly city, so all the power to him. We’ll also be supporting our home town by exhibiting at the ‘Hub on Wheels’ event the end of September.

I wish I could talk about some of the cool collaboration projects coming up, but I have to keep it under-wraps for the time being. But stayed tuned for some pretty amazing stuff!

Is it already August, really? I finished Jesse D’s bike, which is absolutely ridiculous. Curved seat tube, triple triangle stays, and sublimated powder coat. This is a new process that we are offering which allows basically any digital graphic to be fused into a powdercoat.

We also finished Andrew M’s, and his complete build came out great. Check out the chrome powder coat on the fork, its not plated chrome but it looks pretty close!

Also, thanks to our friend James we now have a Series II Bridgeport CNC in the shop. We hope to be having this machine running in the near future, so keep posted for updates. Also, it took us about 6 hours just to move this thing from the street into the shop!

Thats it for now, stay tuned for new projects!

-Marty

This past month went by so quick! I’ve really been trying to work on some different projects lately as well. I just finished the first Geekhouse ‘Mudville’ cyclocross frame. And Fitzy and I have been busy build a new 26″ jump/park bike. I also have a couple of new track frames with some curved seat tubes in the mix. Also, one of the new track frames even has a level top tube! Wow, I can’t believe there’s actually a level top tube track bike from geekhouse!…;) Other than that I got a few beautiful Rockcity frames out as well and they really came out quite nice, not to toot my own horn. Stay tune this coming month to the flickr page, I have a new ’show’ bike that’s going to be pretty amazing when it’s finally finished…

Peace,

-Marty

The last month was a lot of fun, and we got a lot of work done!
The only bad part was my bike got stolen right out of the back of my car in Boston! If everyone could keep a look out for a blue geekhouse with a white fork, that would be greatly appreciated. There might even be a reward for it, if it’s found.
The Open House was a really fun time, we had about 100 people stop by the shop over the course of the day. Bold Sprints went off without a hitch.
The Redbones block party was also a great time. And I’d like to thank Mark B for all his help in making the trade show booth for that.
Also, our waiting list is currently between 3-4 months on frames. So before we get too close to Cross season, I’d like to start a special waiting list for the new Geekhouse ‘Mudville’ cyclocross frame. Details will be to follow, but basically I want to do a small batch of these ready for the upcoming season. Please email if interested.
Other than that, I’m working on some pretty special bikes this month, so stay tuned to flickr for new pics. Thanks!

-Marty

This past month was great, I got a bunch of track frames out the door and I got to work on a fun project: Frankendork. I’ve already posted this on the wordpress blog, but it’s gotten some good press on Animal New York, Not Cot, FixedGearGallery, and on Urban Velo.
Also, May is National Bike Month! I’m going to be showing off bikes at Redbone Party, and hopefully the NYC Bike film festival.
Then of course there’s the: Geek Open House happening on Sunday May 18th. Also, I’ve got Harpoon as the official beer sponsor!!! And this is the current schedule of events:
Bike Polo in Allston 12pm
Meet and Greet 2pm
BBQ 2pm-4pm
Shop Tours 2pm-5pm
Bold Sprints 5pm-7pm
Ghettodrome 8pm
Afterparty Zuzu 9pm

Thanks!

-Marty

So I built a pursuit tall bike… I literally built the whole bike from start to finish in about two days. Thanks to Mark B, Buckley, Dan StG, Logan, and Pete S for helping me with everything this past Sat. We were literally on a mission to get frame and parts all rattle-canned and ready to go. It was kind of crazy because the weather Sat was beautiful, then crazy thunderstorms rolled in and there were lightening flashes going on in the background while we were trying to paint it. I decided to call the bike Frankendork, and I really felt like a mad scientist welding this thing together. A lot of the tubing was from scrap or extra lying around the shop, but the front is double butted deddacchi, meaning it’s probably one of the nicest build tall bikes I’ve ever seen. Anyway, I hope everyone gets a kick out of it. Thanks!

-Marty

The last month has again been pretty crazy! I’m finally settling into the new space, and have been working just about 7 days a week to get a large batch of Rockcity’s completed. And we now officially have a new powdercoater and things are looking great.
Also, I ended up getting a sweet Bridgeport milling machine, which I named Steve. Other than that we finally got up the new custom page, and the new online fit form. Check out our body measurement image…;)
I’d also like to announce that next month in part with National Bike month, and the Baystate bike week. Geekhouse is going to be doing an ‘Open House’ on Sunday May 18th from 2pm-late. Everyone is invited, and we’ll be offering BBQ, Beer, and Bold Sprints!

Thanks!

-Marty