Posts by Montesquieu

Quote:Originally Posted by furo what made the op interested in bespoke bikes? SyleForum, appropriately enough. I started bicycle touring in Europe in college, then added an Italian steel race bike in 1998, triathlon bike in 2002,...

Quote:Originally Posted by OCULUS Handsome! At first, I thought the maker was the same as I saw in a WSJ article earlier this year, but you'll see, his name is...

Bespoke by Dave Wheeler of Wheeler Boot Company, Houston. Elephant and cow hide. Vintage 2012 after 1.5 year wait.

Quote:Originally Posted by oldog/oldtrix  Beautiful chromed lugs and chain/seat stays! That's a keeper.

Quote:Originally Posted by F. Corbera You have a good eye. I had the frameset made MTO in 2004, the wheelset is the Eurus G3 from the same year. The Campy Record, Zero G brakes, and other components are 2005-ish, when I finally...

Quote:Originally Posted by F. Corbera  Based on incomplete memory of that Litespeed frameset and the Eurus wheel decals (which predate the 2002 Eurus on my one production frameset), I'm going to guess that this is a vintage...

Now that the thread has been moved to parts I don't frequent, please PM me anytime you want to draw my attention back. I understand and can live with the mods' rationale for moving it, even though my intended audience was MC. It reached...

Fillet brazing by Dave Kirk, former head frame builder at Serotta and one of the world's best, on my wife's bike:

(to F. Corbera) Please do share your Lemond frame. I'm a big fan of his, partly because of how he rode, and partly because of his contentious advocacy for clean cycling. Rebadged frames, like Lemond's Calfee, are some of the most...

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