IMHO this is the deal of the decade (century? Millennium?) Jamie seems
to refuse to take orders to build bikes. Maybe its because he only
finishes about one a year and has ten orders. He certainly has refused
my attempts to get one. Jamie, like one of my other favs, Peter
Johnson, are trained tool and die makers. My father was a die maker and
I worked in his t & d shop growing up. I know the tolerances these guys
work to. I have seen Jamie at work, and his attention to the kind of
detail required of a tool maker is present in his approach to frame
building. The work is precision incarnate. If he could just cut 7 cm
off this bike It would NOT make it as far as Cirque! Unlike some of the
excesses I believe are present in recent years, Jamie is of the form
follows function school. That's Harvard! I do not mean to insult
anyone by leaving them out of this group but I don't know them all. Of
those I do know, however, I would include in this crew those like Peter
J., Peter W., eRichie, and Bruce Gordon.
Edward Albert
Chappaqua, New York, U.S.A.
>>> James Swan <jswan@optonline.net> 05/27/08 10:00 PM >>>
I've got an unpainted frame set here that I plan on bringing to sell
at Cirque. I didn't have a particular customer in mind when I built
it last Fall. I just wanted to road test the new jig and tube
mitering fixtures that I spent the previous Winter building. The
tooling worked out great... The level of workmanship on this frame
kit is the same as my custom bikes but the lugs are Newvex instead of
hand cut. The price is $1200 unpainted. I will supply decals. Click
here for details and photos:
Jamie Swan
Northport, New York, U.S.A.
Centerport Cycles Inc.
http://www.centerportcycles.com (mapped)
http://www.limws.org
http://www.liatca.org