This thread is for the riders to see what goes on inside of a bmx manufacturing facility!

Standard Byke Company is rider owned and all about the bmx not the corporate hype. SBC is not a huge fancy glass building with 50 offices and a huge staff, wind tunnels and all that crazy R&D stuff. It is all rider owned and rider built . DIE HARD BIKES FOR DIE HARD RIDERS.
Here is a inside look on some of the industries best bikes being built by riders for rider\'s. Standard is not just a BMX freestyle company, Racing is very important to SBC. There are only a few USA-made companies left and SBC is one of them, ALL HAND BUILT IN THE USA. From off the shelf to full out custom bikes, SBC is here for you the rider to own the best product out there.





YES THE BOSS WORKS TOO



Top photo: Steve using the newly hot rodded belt sander. Rob decided the belt sander was too weak for our needs so he added a 75 shot of nitrous!

Photo #2 is Steve drilling gas holes on seat stays!

Standard was founded on: Quality, Integrity, Pride, Made in the USA.

Standard has been re born into a better BMX company. Our mission is still the same: to provide a place where rider's can go to get a bike they can trust.

If riders want to stop by and see how frames are built come to Davenport and we'll show you around. We also have a great skatepark 4 blocks away. Consider it an open invitation.

http://www.qcalive.com/locations/davenport...te-park/photos/

i love the rawness of it in the workshop ,i need to venture over.
love the history hanging in the rafters ,i will be after one of those bad boys.

thanks so much for posting these pictures up ,you dont often get to look at the insides o a workshop..

dan

I see a bunch of old shortys there and no PM in my inbox about them...

I work darn close to the FBM shop and they give tours. If I didn't feel like such a poseur, I'd go down and check it out.

YES. bare bones, just some nice machines and the best craftsmen! The BEST is always not the fanciest!! I know so many street rodders and other builders who work out of holes in the wall or garages and do some of the best work you have ever seen! NEVER judge a book by its cover!!

SUPERJEER, still trying to find you a good one cheap! but good and cheap could be hard!!

Applause to you NV for an excellent thread.

Thank you, wish some of the pictures were better, I will add more later!!!

whats the guys and gals daily routines then who gets in late from a hang over haha
or is always singing out of tune.....

so whats everyone think?

Is that guys name Todd?

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...t%3D20%26um%3D1

robert

Very enlightening and very, very cool photo tour. I'm a welder by trade, so I dug the pix of the jigs especially. And if you've got Bridgeport machines in your shop, you're definitely doing high quality work. Nice to see American craftsmanship is still just that.

THANK YOU.

Alignment table. Every single frame that leaves our shop goes through this. Guaranteed straight.

MORE PICS FOR ALL TO ENJOY

very cool - thanks for sharing them

glad you all enjoyed!

nick

I have known Rick for many years and he has always been one to do things right the first time.
You can tell from these photos that his attention to detail has rubbed off on everybody that is working with him.

Thanks for posting these pictures and sharing a inside look at the Standard factory with us.

Thank you for the nice replys, I will pass it forward.

SBC team

Question about the alignment table. Do you put the frame on there right after its welded while it's still hot to tweak it? Or do you heat up certain areas with a torch to tweak them to perfection?
Just wondering. Thanks for the pics. I'm enjoying them.

Dean

they just put it on there and squeeeze.

If I make a trip out can I try welding?!

We rarely have to "tweak" any frames. What we do though when needed is called "cold setting". So the frames are completely cooled....sometimes for days just because we don't get everything done at once, then when we check them if they are off at all we do the cold setting. Pretty cool, very accurate

Brilliant thread, thanks for posting.

that headtube with the engraved logo is the shiznit!! What frame does that come on or can you get that on any of them...

If anyone wants to see any specific shots from the shop or has any specific questions regarding SBC let me know. I'll do my best to take care of it.

Above is the big boss man

Where do you get your tubing?
What style tig rod do you use?
Do you weld in different places on the frame to keep it more tru?
Did you build your own jig?
Do you heat treat your frames and if do, how?

All I have for now. Just wondering about the above. Don't have to answer if you don't want to.

Dean
BTW, did I mention you have an awesome frame?

We get our tubing from a variety of sources depending on what a given bike needs. Our main supplier is True Temper.
We use ER70 & ER80 rod.
We do have a weld sequence to keep the frames straight.
We have some fixtures from Waterford and some we have built. All have been modified for improvements.
We do not heat treat our frames. Our material is of a very high quality and heat treating would not benefit them. Our tubes are a heat treated air hardening material. It is called OX Platinum. You may look up it's properties on the True Temper web site.
Glad to answer any questions.
Thanks for the frame compliment. A lot goes into just one frame and we try to build them the best way possible in our opinion.

Rick M

TRUE TEMPER'S OX PLATINUM Series is based on state of the art steel metallurgy. The metallurgists at True Temper began with an aerospace grade of air hardening steel and modified it to enhance its properties for light weight bicycle frames. The ultimate tensile strength exceeds 195,000 psi.

Air hardenable steels are desirable for high performance welded steel frames. At the edges of the molten weld pool, as the metal freezes, an unavoidable microscopic notch is formed. This is a stress concentrator that magnifies the actual stresses of riding by a factor of 4 to 6 times. The weld is relatively small and cools so quickly that metallurgical changes occur creating localized hard and brittle areas, if the alloy is not specifically designed to avoid this.

Air hardening steels are metallurgically designed so that as the steel cools and solidifies from the molten state in air, the steel hardens to an even higher strength. The metallurgists must control the alloying elements so that the hardened steel is also tough and able to absorb impacts, rather than brittle and subject to fracturing.

True Temper not only solved these problems, but went further: Most heat treated steels tend to anneal, or soften, when heated between about 1000°F and 1500°F. TIG Welding, which heats the joint up to the melting point, must heat the part of the tube adjacent to the weld up into this annealing range, thus locally weakening the tube. This drop in strength has no effect on every day riding, but it does reduce the potential long term fatigue life and, in a crash, can lead to buckling of the frame.

OX PLATINUM is very resistant to this annealing. Thus an OX PLATINUM frame will survive crashes better, and also have a much better fatigue life.



OX Platinum is a proprietary superthermophillic (heat-loving) seamless alloy, developed in partnership with the U.S. Steel Alliance. The composition of Chromium, Molybdenum, and Vanadium with an unprecedented 217 ksi ultimate tensile strength makes this alloy actually gain strength through a metallurgical transformation in the heat affected zone as a result of welding or brazing. OX Platinum is highly temper-resistant, resulting in an 11% increase in fatigue life and a 20% increase in impact strength over the competition. The increased mechanical properties of OX Platinum allow for incredibly strong, yet light-weight frame designs with the legendary feel of steel.


WELCOME STUDENTS TO BIKE BUILDING 101.

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So stoked to see where my new bike is coming from!

I'll take a gear in 38 and another in 44, please

I wish I'd have opted for an etched headtube on my frame They are slick looking.

mannequinforce what did you order?

Glad to see you all enjoy the post. It is always neat to show riders how bikes are being made.

A 21.5 125R in white and a set of black 125R forks. They said it should be shipped out Monday or Tuesday. Can't wait!

Your going to be stoked! Kick A$$ bikes. First standard?

Fer sure bro! I am amassing a pile of parts to be thrown on it as we speak. Talked to Rick at Nashville and rode some around and knew that's what I wanted.

You will never want anything else!!!!

Those engraved headtubes are sicccck. So jealous.

Yes they are very cool!

thats very true

I just got my 21" 125R with 990 mounts. Just finished painting it. I'll post pics after it's stickered and I put it together.

YA POST SOME PICS in the mid school section, killer sbc thread going there for posting bikes!

Aaaaah, it's killing me. I want to get my bike so bad! Ha.