Sunday Friends: Josh Tracey

For this installment of Sunday Friends, we are showing Josh Tracey’s custom painted blue and red Wave frame from 2007. I’m really into his unique paint job. Great color combo!

For this installment of Sunday Friends, we are showing Josh Tracey’s custom painted blue and red Wave frame from 2007. I’m really into his unique paint job. Great color combo!
Anyone remember this guy? Some of you will remember the frame, but probably no one will remember the color. This is one of the OG Sunday frame prototypes that we received in the fall of 2005. We had 6 different metallic colors made including purple, blue, yellow, red, green and gray. When the frame was released in May 2006 only the red, green and gray colors made it to store shelves. There was even plans to have 2 different rear ends lengths, but BMX had made the change to short rear end lengths by that point.
The newest Weezer album entitled Raditude came out in stores yesterday and guess what? The whole band is riding Sunday frames on the back cover! Rivers Cuomo is in the middle on the ocean blue Funday, Brian Bell is on the green Second Wave, Scott Shriner is on the red Wave and Buffalo native Patrick Wilson is bunnyhopping on the silver Model C. None of this could’ve been possible without Mark Lewman and DJ Greyboy. I know we were all stoked when we found out the news this morning!
Sunday introduced the Wave downtube at Interbike in 2007. This unique feature quickly became a centerpiece in our goal of bringing riders a frame that’s both strong and light. Surprisingly, a lot of people didn’t notice the Wave when we initially showed it at Interbike, and to this day some riders STILL haven’t noticed it. There are also riders out there that are unaware of how well the tube design really works. However, with that said, I have heard countless stories from Sunday frame owners about what their Wave downtubes have been through. It’s understood that the tube won’t take “everything” thrown at it (after all, it’s still just made of 4130 chromoly), but it will take a lot of the abuse that ordinary round tubes won’t, and once the downtube of a frame has been damaged, it’s only a matter of time before a new frame will be needed. At this point it’s been over two years since we began testing the original prototypes, so I figured that it was time to show some photos of what a Wave downtube looks like on the inside.
Here is our latest installment of the Sunday Friends section! Lots of super dialed bikes! If you have a Sunday that you want to have up here then send me some pics! Email me HERE!