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Cyclenaut
02-23-2007, 01:01 PM
Just wondering if anyone is going to the North American Hand Made Bicycle Show (http://www.handmadebicycleshow.com/index.html) in San Jose starting on the 2nd?
BigFatGuy
02-23-2007, 08:25 PM
I wish I was going!
rattlecan
02-24-2007, 01:53 PM
i wish i was going, too.

don walker asked me about a hundred times to attend. i just cant swing it this year.
oh well, maybe next year.

eric.
1mystk
02-24-2007, 04:34 PM
Just wondering if anyone is going to the North American Hand Made Bicycle Show (http://www.handmadebicycleshow.com/index.html) in San Jose starting on the 2nd?

Hey Cyclenaut, thanks for the link. Looks to be an interesting place to be, too bad I won't be in Cali then. Would have been cool to check it out.

I went to some of the frame builders sites that are listed on NAHMBS website. In the gallery one frame in particular interested me. Too bad it was only a small section of the bike, it had what looked to be some sweet engraving on a pewter looking frame.
phlatlander
02-24-2007, 05:10 PM
In the gallery one frame in particular interested me. Too bad it was only a small section of the bike, it had what looked to be some sweet engraving on a pewter looking frame.

If it lookes anything like this, its a Merlin. Beautifulicious.
mimbresman
02-24-2007, 05:58 PM
If it lookes anything like this, its a Merlin. Beautifulicious.

They ride beautifulicous too. :)
Goride
02-24-2007, 06:01 PM
I'll be there again this year.

Last year I uploaded a gallery of images...

http://www.dirtragmag.com/gal/showgallery.php?cat=576

This year promises to be bigger and better.
rockhound
02-24-2007, 08:26 PM
I'll be there again this year.

Last year I uploaded a gallery of images...

http://www.dirtragmag.com/gal/showgallery.php?cat=576

This year promises to be bigger and better.

I went there last year via Brad's pictures...I hope to do the same this year!
PutAwayWet
02-24-2007, 10:51 PM
If it lookes anything like this, its a Merlin. Beautifulicious.

Holy crap that's a lot of engraving. I wonder if the tube walls have to be oversized to account for the loss of thickness where it's engraved? Technically the tube is only as strong as its weakest (thinnest?) section...

But you're right - absolutely beautilicious.
1mystk
02-24-2007, 11:47 PM
If it lookes anything like this, its a Merlin. Beautifulicious.

YES! That is the one Phlat!

Now that is beautifulicious!:D

Hmmm, I wonder how much? $$$
1mystk
02-24-2007, 11:49 PM
They ride beautifulicous too. :)

Sure now Mims, just feed the temptation :D
phlatlander
02-24-2007, 11:59 PM
Hmmm, I wonder how much? $$$

I'm guessing two dollar signs more than what you typed. ;)
Cyclenaut
02-25-2007, 12:00 AM
Brad, see you out there. Chipps is flying in for it as well.
1mystk
02-25-2007, 12:03 AM
I'm guessing two dollar signs more than what you typed. ;)

TWO more!? :eek: So we are talking just the frame only too aren't we?
rockyrider
02-25-2007, 12:10 AM
When Merlin says "The cost and man hours involved were incredibly expensive, and thus a design like this is unfortunately cost prohibitive in terms of a retail offering", you just know that you're likely looking at a very large number of dollar signs.

http://www.merlinbike.com/gallery/
1mystk
02-25-2007, 12:14 AM
When Merlin says "The cost and man hours involved were incredibly expensive, and thus a design like this is unfortunately cost prohibitive in terms of a retail offering", you just know that you're likely looking at a very large number of dollar signs.

http://www.merlinbike.com/gallery/

Well I must admit that it is indeed a nice piece of art. Almost too nice to want to ride it.

Thanks for the link Rocky.
mimbresman
02-25-2007, 12:35 AM
That Merlin is too nice to ride. It'd be a real pain in the arse to keep it clean. A standard Merlin is artsy enough.

BTW I'd love to attend that show.
rockhound
02-25-2007, 04:54 PM
If it lookes anything like this, its a Merlin. Beautifulicious.

Beautifulicious?

Where I come from, those are called stress risers! ;)
mimbresman
02-25-2007, 06:53 PM
Beautifulicious?

Where I come from, those are called stress risers! ;)

It is a road bike...but think of a 50 mph decent through a hairpin turn when your head tube/top tube junction snaps (happened on the Specialized Allez Epic CF frames during the Tour of the Gila in the early 1990's).

Fortunately Ti doesn't catastrophically fail like aluminum or carbon fiber. It'd more likely crack slowly.
Cyclenaut
02-25-2007, 10:28 PM
Mibres, those cracked Spesh's were due to a reaction between the epoxy they were using at the time and the metal in the frame. On pre-broken frames you could actually see where the epoxy was starting to bubble out of the joint.
mimbresman
02-25-2007, 10:38 PM
Mibres, those cracked Spesh's were due to a reaction between the epoxy they were using at the time and the metal in the frame. On pre-broken frames you could actually see where the epoxy was starting to bubble out of the joint.

I know...I got rid of mine shortly after those failures and bought a steel Bridgestone.