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rockyrider
03-05-2008, 02:09 AM
...of building plain old bikes. Paul Brodie (originally of Brodie bikes) has another passion to keep him occupied...

http://www.flashbackfab.com/pages/excel00.html

and it's amazing what he's hand building...
LeeMcGough
03-05-2008, 08:21 AM
He's running Dirt Drops on that thing?;) Scary!
althegud1srtakn
03-05-2008, 08:38 AM
awesome! and awesome name!
RepublicanSS
03-05-2008, 10:02 AM
back in 98 i had a brodie roadie, a steel sloping top tube road bike. it was nice. that was prior to his selling the company.
K-Man
03-05-2008, 10:03 AM
Infreakingcredible. :eek:
rockyrider
03-05-2008, 10:28 AM
It really reinforces what my grandfather taught me, you can build anything if you're prepared to take the time and make the effort.

Here's the YouTube video of the first time they fired it up in public

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEZUB0QEKK8
Tman
03-05-2008, 11:50 AM
Been watching that one for quite some time now!
hitekrdnk
03-20-2008, 02:27 PM
Another ex bike industry type on the same track.

http://www.latimes.com/classified/automotive/highway1/la-hy-throttle19mar19,0,2525268.story

Although with alot less effort! That Brodie bike is bad a$$.
RickB
03-25-2008, 08:58 AM
Wow. That's a true labor of love, and a definite set of "Renaissance Man" skills to pull it off.

Also, until you posted this, I never knew about the whole "board racing" culture. Pretty insane.
hairygrump
03-25-2008, 11:56 AM
That thing is awesome. Gotta love art machinery.

Now he just needs to build five more and a board track.
phlatlander
03-26-2008, 05:40 PM
I like that on the for sale page you can be the 4th to own (#s 1,2,3 already sold) your very own Excelsior for $155,000.
rockyrider
03-27-2008, 12:50 AM
I like that on the for sale page you can be the 4th to own (#s 1,2,3 already sold) your very own Excelsior for $155,000.You can't be first but you can be next...
K-Man
03-27-2008, 11:03 AM
You can't be first but you can be next...

Yeah, and if he was charging twice as much, his waiting list would be twice as long.
rockyrider
03-28-2008, 12:40 AM
It's way cooler than an OCC build. :cool:
PunkRock
03-29-2008, 08:32 PM
Theres a lot of amazing fabricators all over the world doing amazing things with motorcycles that the clowns at occ can't BEGIN to fathom