Both of us have owned many bling bikes over the years and have really enjoyed riding them but we both wanted more uniqueness in our rides. There are so many great bikes around and many hardtails can be purchased very cheaply but we wanted something more. Gabe suggested that we should build our own frames and i thought he was crazy, but after some thought I decided that I would like to join in this hobby.

We started researching every where we could and came up with good functional fixtures jigs and tools to make homebuilding practical. We could have paid the bucks and gone to the institute or other framebuilder schools but we thought we would just go ahead and learn on our own and use the same or less money to purchase the needed equipment.

We have successfully produced many frames for ourselves and think that other folks may want to do the same. It would be really cool to start an underground swell of folks riding their own "homebuilts". So take some time and think about it and drop us an e mail. We will be glad to walk you through the process and help you build your own and tell you how we did it....

IT`S A SOUL RIDE ......

Smokebikes is Gabe Holguin and Thad Johnson...... long time riding friends with a love of bicycles....it`s still a soul ride but we now have acquired all the professional building tools,jigs,etc and are crafting some very sweet soul riding fixies for folks....

Custom built Mtn Fixies are what we love....they ride like nothing else