Mike,
Boy, do I have an answer to that one. It will become the preface to the thing I need to write regarding how (and why) I go about building frames the way I do. To be perfectly honest, very few have maintained absolute purity, as I shall explain. It IS diffucult and generally not profitable and it is labourious. But the rewards and the results justify themselves to a select few people.
Been working a lot. Don't have time to write it on my lunch break; but I will get this underway. I've been trying to get to it for a week or two now,
Brian Baylis La Mesa, CA
I've been super busy
In a message dated 3/19/2004 1:01:04 PM Mountain Standard Time, classicrendezvous-request@bikelist.org writes: i thought we were discussing how folks from "then" who were once, in your word, "artistes" somehow traded their motivation for "business". I would be curious as to why current folks who produce frames "now" in the KOF category maintain their motivation to the "art" and not for "business"?
It sounds like we are talking about selling out which to a business is just that but to some consumers who have emotion invested in the product it is something else.
I guess I can ask this directly then to the KOF's on the list. Why have you not sold out???
Mike "Flame me off list" Wilkinson
Castle Rock, CO