We really enjoyed our visit Paul, thank you again for including me in your wonderful video series. Almost makes me want to do more of my own.....almost....big love to you brother, see you next spring. Thinking I'll moto up again!
Very cool show! I have a 1990 Fat chance bike with a Salsa 1 1/8" Stem and a Brodie brake booster on it. Thank you to both for all the "Cool bike man"comments I have received over the years.
Great interview!...It's amazing how folks of our generation have similar parallel lives. But some, like these two, become icons from their own vision and drive... I also found freedom with bicycles as a child but I have come back to them now through E-MTBs... I spent some elementary years amongst the orange groves as a child and came back to learn metal working skills at Orange Coast College. Orange County was a hot hub at that time (1970s) for wheel centric innovation. All the people I knew were building desert motorcycles and MX was getting popular. My first machine shop job was across the alley from a speedway motorcycle garage in Costa Mesa. Ages later I raced vintage motorcycles and I am part of an international CZ MX club that even has our own "Weedy" jerseys. We've known each other for decades and could probably go almost anywhere and meet other club members we have known like long lost brothers.
Grateful to Paul for hosting a fun and interesting shared with a modest and humble Ross sharing halcyon days of USA framebuilding and design of bikes ! Please do more great videos with this type guests and content !
Great interview, I’m happy to have been in the orbit of Salsa and the Northern California bike racing/ social scene. Ross , John H, and myself rode our motorcycles down to Laguna Seca one year, I was on my Yamaha 600… I was tormented by only being able to hear the beautiful rich sound of both of the Ducati 900SS’s next to me… I quickly sold my Yamaha and bought a 900SSFE. Like riding a Royce Union vs a Salsa La Raza!
It’s not a temple,,,,,,,,,,it’s the whole cathedral,,, Excellent to see who’s behind Salsa…..keep coming the super stars of classic world of cycling. Great work…
What a great chat you had with each other. I am so happy for being a little part of those good old days. Paul, I remember when you introduced me to Ross at the Friedrichshafen show. You made Ross weld a set of clip-on handlebars for my Ducati. I still have my 1991 Salsa ala Carte bike that I bought in Seattle at R&E bikestore. Such wonderful memories are coming back. Thanks, Ross and Paul
Hi Jorg, Yes, I also have a lot of great memories from those years gone by. I do not remember introducing you to Ross at the Bike Show. And no idea you convinced him to weld handlebars for you. All the Best :)
@@paulbrodie Well, while strolling the show we met Ross. We had a quick chat with him about motorycles and you just said "Ross, could you please ship him a set of clip-ons for his Ducati - he´s one of the good guys". That was like Christmas. You knew so many people there. We had great fun at the shows. Why not invite Brian Benson and have a chat about the funny things we went though at all those Friedrichshafen shows...?
I met Ross in 1989 in Berne, Switzerland, I was a Canadian backpacking around Europe. I was checking out a couple of Bike shops and had just purchased a Salsa "If it aint moto it's worthless t-shirt" and a Merlin Titanium shirt as well. Mountain bikes had just started to pick up steam in Europe at that time. So at one of these shops I met an American MTB racer and he mentioned that he was going down to the river to hang with some friends from the States . Then he dropped the bombshell that it was Ross Shafer from Salsa Cycles. He said I should come out and hang with them. Of course I agreed. Ross was there with his wife. There was a Rep from Wilderness Trails and a couple of others. We spent the afternoon surfing on the river. Now surfing consisted of a sheet of plywood tied to a tree with a stretchy rope. Using the force of the river to pull back on the board and stretching the rope then flattening out the board to catapult yourself forward thus "surfing". It was a highlight of my trip spending the day with them. I went on to take a Fillet brazed frame course in Wisconsin and later worked for Coggs Cycles in Calgary with Jeff Shugg. It's great to listen to these stories from the legends and pioneers of the sport. thanks for the great memory Ross.
It was a real privilege to listen to both of you! The common bond you have together is truly wonderful. Bicycling and motorcycling has been my life and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
A very humble fellow. Kudos. I love his social and full-on hippie-type sensibilities. As a veteran cyclist who owned the earliest Salsa stems, etc., ( I think I still have some) hearing the legendary back stories is fascinating. Props for conducting this great interview!
@@paulbrodie And I thought I had a Salsa pint glass that I might have picked up at Interbike, but I haven’t found it yet. And if I lost it, my life just won’t be the same.
Very enjoyable! I know very little about bicycles (life long motorcyclist), but that didn’t matter here. This was about two very interesting people and their journeys thus far. Thank you.
That was amazing Paul. I rarely can sit through hour long interviews but that was SO good I never moved haha. I love this format and hearing fun old history stuff. Your viewers will feel like "they had the password" here. Well done.
I love this kind of stuff. Could listen to it for hours! I think right now is also a pretty exciting time for bikes, especially the custom stuff. I feel like lately there's so much to be found on the internet and the community is really alive and growing, although unfortunately it doesn't feel like that's happening here in Europe. I live in Belgium and I somewhat regularly see or hear about people with custom bikes, but that world here feels pretty closed off to newbies like me who are trying to get into the art.
Thank you. Have patience getting into custom bikes. Little bit at a time. Develop friendships.... That can lead to tips, trading, and starting your own small collection.....
Love, love, love this episode!!!! Mr. Shafer is a great story teller, the one where his mother told him to cut his hair and she would give him the insurance money reminds me of a story my dad told me. His dad told him to cut his hair or move out, he found a place to move into the following day 😂
This is such a great interview. Ross is a really nice guy. You two are heroes! If Scott Nicol, Chris Chance and Keith Bontrager had joined us, it would have been even better! Thanks, Paul!
Fantastic show. Two awesome, super humble incredibly talented fellows. Sharing their mutual respect, hard work and dedication, overcoming life's obstacles and nothing wasted to ego. Ps. Still have a gem of a tandem, filet brazed Santana by Ross. And who doesn't like experiencing some road circuit racing?! Gets into ones veins and worth every second. Also got a kick out of his mention of the Yam RZ350 two smoke. Ironic I too bought one back then (K.Roberts sig theme yellow/ black) awhile on the other spectrum by having an '82 Honda CBX 6 (+ added turbo). Fun memories.
The Salsafest you rode down to I remember meeting you, you rode a motorcycle with a yellow frame that you built with a Vincent motor? Great interview with Ross. Lots of good memories from that era.
Love this! I’m a old engine builder. We didn’t have many friends that would share. Lol no internet back then so you really had to study up. If you found a group of guys you knew them for life 😊 god bless!!!
I worked at a Salsa adjacent machine shop when Ross still owned Salsa. The owner of the shop and one of my coworkers both owned Salsas and I thought that they were way cooler than what I was riding. On a personal note the bike industry had some great people in it and Ross was one of them.
Wonderful video. I made it to one Salsafest myself, back in the day. Great to hear the stories from these two great frame builders! Love this type of content!
Thank you, Paul, that was just super interesting. I also grew up in Los Angeles/SoCal in the sixties and seventies, had a Sting Ray and a paper route, and a bike was definitely the way to see and do stuff. Next was my Nishiki Grand Prix for $139, and so far I'm just shy of 3000 miles with the club this year...all thanks to bicycles and bicycle people like you.
@@paulbrodieMy pleasure! I forgot to mention that a week or two back you had asked for feedback and who to talk to etc, and I mentioned Portland builder Ira Ryan…re-upping that suggestion. And, of course it may be a good time to talk to Paul Sadoff about the current scene AND his and his team’s CX racing! Cheers
Thank you for this!! Convos like this are so valuable. Cheers to you both - for all your hard work and for the impact you've had in this amazing community.
What a fantastic conversation - bravo chaps! The very first edition of MBUK I bought - August 1992 - had the legendary Jason McRoy (🙏) riding an A La Carte on a the cover, therefore you played a big part in sparking my passion for mountain biking. So for that, a very big thank you!
Pure joy start to finish, love you both. I worked at Santana before Ross and I'm surprised he got good at fillet brazing there -- the fillets were super lumpy when I worked there! Hopefully they got better between my stint there and his...
Hi Mark, hey were certainly lumpy when I hit the torch there at first! Kiki his clean-up crew and thousands of fillet brazed joints helped me get on target.
Really good stuff! It's great with the technology today, can capture this history from people that lived and created it. People will be watching and enjoying this for for a long time to come. 👍
Great show! Here in New Mexico we call them “chiles” rather than “peppers”, and we know from chiles! From world-famous Hatch green chile to the insiders-only Chimayo red chile, New Mexico knows chile! One taste, and you are hooked for life, y’all should come and get a sample. Thank you for the great content.
Yum! Glad you enjoyed our chat. Sadly my 69 year old guts can no longer process all the flaming hot stuff I indulged in (maybe too much!) in earlier years
Great pod! I know the involvement ended a long time ago, but I've had so much fun on many different Salsa bikes over the years - most recently my Fargo (Colonel Mustard). I think QBP captured the spirit. Great stories on my old Sovereign too.
Regarding Ross' comments on Made bike show and the "jewellery" he talks about, I remember Tom Ritchey commenting "There's a heck of a lot of art going on..." and leaving it at that. Sometimes it might be for brand recognition, such as days gone by with racing on unbranded bikes and manufacturers such as Hetchins with their "curly" stays, other times it really is just an exercise in excess... and nothing exceeds like excess. Either way, it's fun to see, but I do love a bit of simplicity like we had back in the 1980s. Sadly we didn't see much here in the 1980's due to import tariffs, we shrunk down to around 2 major brands and the best that either offered were frames made from gaspipe.
I have an identical trestle table in my garage it was my fathers he used it as a make shift desk in his site office, once the line was completed the desk came home and was pretty much in regular use for the next fifty years, family gatherings out on loan etc. That was back in 64/65 . Great to have a biggish table that folds flat and stores away. I remember the scout group I belonged to had loads of trestle tables from the twenties the 1920's they saw no end of use fetes , jumble sales, xmas parties, whist drives. I wonder are they still going ?
Funny how climbing up the ladder for faster and better will put you on Italian Motorcycles. When things become hand built, Your standards rise. Will never look at Salsa the same after this show. Thanks. !!!
What a fantastic episode. The discussions made me very nostalgic for when most bikes were very "boutiquish". Now, they are very cookie-cutter and generic.
We really enjoyed our visit Paul, thank you again for including me in your wonderful video series. Almost makes me want to do more of my own.....almost....big love to you brother, see you next spring. Thinking I'll moto up again!
Ross, I finally found your comment! Thanks Mucho for being a part of this, and I do hope to see you again next spring :)
Very cool show! I have a 1990 Fat chance bike with a Salsa 1 1/8" Stem and a Brodie brake booster on it. Thank you to both for all the "Cool bike man"comments I have received over the years.
Thanks for your comments!
Dude, no way. More content like this please!
100% agree, absolutely loved this video, 2 legends reminiscing. Superb.
Thank you very much!
More father’s of mountain biking please! This was great. Appreciate you guys for creating the sport I love.
Thank you David....
That was excellent!
Great interview!...It's amazing how folks of our generation have similar parallel lives. But some, like these two, become icons from their own vision and drive... I also found freedom with bicycles as a child but I have come back to them now through E-MTBs... I spent some elementary years amongst the orange groves as a child and came back to learn metal working skills at Orange Coast College. Orange County was a hot hub at that time (1970s) for wheel centric innovation. All the people I knew were building desert motorcycles and MX was getting popular. My first machine shop job was across the alley from a speedway motorcycle garage in Costa Mesa. Ages later I raced vintage motorcycles and I am part of an international CZ MX club that even has our own "Weedy" jerseys. We've known each other for decades and could probably go almost anywhere and meet other club members we have known like long lost brothers.
Thanks Tom.. Yes, parallel lives have happened more than we'll probably ever know....
Grateful to Paul for hosting a fun and interesting shared with a modest and humble Ross sharing halcyon days of USA framebuilding and design of bikes ! Please do more great videos with this type guests and content !
Thank you Bob. Yes it was fun sitting down with Ross and letting the conversation unfold....
Great interview, I’m happy to have been in the orbit of Salsa and the Northern California bike racing/ social scene. Ross , John H, and myself rode our motorcycles down to Laguna Seca one year, I was on my Yamaha 600… I was tormented by only being able to hear the beautiful rich sound of both of the Ducati 900SS’s next to me… I quickly sold my Yamaha and bought a 900SSFE. Like riding a Royce Union vs a Salsa La Raza!
It’s not a temple,,,,,,,,,,it’s the whole cathedral,,, Excellent to see who’s behind Salsa…..keep coming the super stars of classic world of cycling. Great work…
What a great chat you had with each other. I am so happy for being a little part of those good old days. Paul, I remember when you introduced me to Ross at the Friedrichshafen show. You made Ross weld a set of clip-on handlebars for my Ducati.
I still have my 1991 Salsa ala
Carte bike that I bought in Seattle at R&E bikestore.
Such wonderful memories are coming back.
Thanks, Ross and Paul
Danke das du uns einen Teil deiner Sammlung in FFM gezeigt hast! :)
Hi Jorg, Yes, I also have a lot of great memories from those years gone by. I do not remember introducing you to Ross at the Bike Show. And no idea you convinced him to weld handlebars for you. All the Best :)
@@paulbrodie Well, while strolling the show we met Ross. We had a quick chat with him about motorycles and you just said "Ross, could you please ship him a set of clip-ons for his Ducati - he´s one of the good guys". That was like Christmas. You knew so many people there. We had great fun at the shows. Why not invite Brian Benson and have a chat about the funny things we went though at all those Friedrichshafen shows...?
I met Ross in 1989 in Berne, Switzerland, I was a Canadian backpacking around Europe. I was checking out a couple of Bike shops and had just purchased a Salsa "If it aint moto it's worthless t-shirt" and a Merlin Titanium shirt as well. Mountain bikes had just started to pick up steam in Europe at that time. So at one of these shops I met an American MTB racer and he mentioned that he was going down to the river to hang with some friends from the States . Then he dropped the bombshell that it was Ross Shafer from Salsa Cycles. He said I should come out and hang with them. Of course I agreed. Ross was there with his wife. There was a Rep from Wilderness Trails and a couple of others. We spent the afternoon surfing on the river. Now surfing consisted of a sheet of plywood tied to a tree with a stretchy rope. Using the force of the river to pull back on the board and stretching the rope then flattening out the board to catapult yourself forward thus "surfing". It was a highlight of my trip spending the day with them. I went on to take a Fillet brazed frame course in Wisconsin and later worked for Coggs Cycles in Calgary with Jeff Shugg. It's great to listen to these stories from the legends and pioneers of the sport. thanks for the great memory Ross.
This is pure gold, thank you Paul!
Thank you. And we also thank Ross too!...
It was a real privilege to listen to both of you! The common bond you have together is truly wonderful.
Bicycling and motorcycling has been my life and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
two legends of the framebuilding industry! two giants... what a pleasure to hear the stories! thank you!
Thanks to both of you, and Mitch, for this.
great life stories, thank you ! I would not think I would be so hooked to a non technical piece...
A very humble fellow. Kudos. I love his social and full-on hippie-type sensibilities. As a veteran cyclist who owned the earliest Salsa stems, etc., ( I think I still have some) hearing the legendary back stories is fascinating. Props for conducting this great interview!
Best I ever got of you two was Salsa skewers and stem and Brodie brake booster. Great interview
Absolutely loved this, bring on all the good stories!! And you look good, hope everything goes well.
Thank you OldSlow.. And yes, my health is improving.....
@@paulbrodie can never get enough of frame building and good stories!! =)
Fascinating. It's great that you guys documented this chat. Thanks.
Thank you Alistair! ......
I met Ross back in the 90s. He was a really cool guy then and is still cool today! Thanks. 🙂
Yes, Ross is Cool to be sure.....
@@paulbrodie And I thought I had a Salsa pint glass that I might have picked up at Interbike, but I haven’t found it yet. And if I lost it, my life just won’t be the same.
This was awesome! Living history and life! Thoroughly enjoyed the talk, interview, life review.
This video was pure gold. I loved it & shared it with my brother who got me into MTBs back in the late 80’s.
So much gratitude for Ross! Thank you Paul for this wonderful interview ❤
Love you Betty!
Brilliant Thanks. Also would say that my time working in friends Bike Shop late 70’s..then big into Mountain Bikes from early 80’s….amazing times.
Very enjoyable! I know very little about bicycles (life long motorcyclist), but that didn’t matter here. This was about two very interesting people and their journeys thus far. Thank you.
Great to hear!
Brilliant! I wouldn´t mind if this happens more often.
That was amazing Paul. I rarely can sit through hour long interviews but that was SO good I never moved haha. I love this format and hearing fun old history stuff. Your viewers will feel like "they had the password" here. Well done.
Thanks Shawn. It was a bit of a Marathon, but no one complained about the length :)
@@paulbrodie Yes it was awesome. Please keep these coming
One word Fantastic !! , would love to see a few more of these types of videos , thanks Paul , Ross & Mich
More to come! Thanks for watching!!
I love this kind of stuff. Could listen to it for hours!
I think right now is also a pretty exciting time for bikes, especially the custom stuff. I feel like lately there's so much to be found on the internet and the community is really alive and growing, although unfortunately it doesn't feel like that's happening here in Europe. I live in Belgium and I somewhat regularly see or hear about people with custom bikes, but that world here feels pretty closed off to newbies like me who are trying to get into the art.
Thank you. Have patience getting into custom bikes. Little bit at a time. Develop friendships.... That can lead to tips, trading, and starting your own small collection.....
awesome to watch 2 of the O.G.s of MTB who make beautiful frames
looking good, paul! wonderful 'interview' with ross. two legends of mountain biking lore sharing stories about the early days.
Fantastic, more of this please.
Thank you. You are not the first viewer to say "More!" ......
That was terrific. Thank you.
Great show! I loved my Salsa! That was the golden age of bike development. Now they call them gravel bikes.
Howdy Martin!
Very nice and smooth talk in Pauls shop! Thank you Paul & Ross for doing it!
Thanks both really enjoyed the video.
This video made me polish my Schwinn Paramount and Bultaco Pursang today.
Excellent. I like you!
Another great video. Thanks Paul.
What a thing it is to have such a wonderful friendship.
Yes, I am blessed to have some very wonderful friendships!
our freindship feeds my soul!
Love, love, love this episode!!!! Mr. Shafer is a great story teller, the one where his mother told him to cut his hair and she would give him the insurance money reminds me of a story my dad told me. His dad told him to cut his hair or move out, he found a place to move into the following day 😂
This is fantastic thanks guys!
Great People of our time! thank you
Everybody likes a good story. Thanks Paul!
Absolutely awesome video.
Thanks you both very much for the content.
Rick from NZ
This is such a great interview. Ross is a really nice guy. You two are heroes! If Scott Nicol, Chris Chance and Keith Bontrager had joined us, it would have been even better! Thanks, Paul!
This is absolute gold! ✌️😎
Thank you both for sharing your stories! 👍
Perhaps the best vid you have done. I had tears in my eyes watching some of it and was madly nodding my head during other parts. Andy
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks..
Great discussion segment, thank you for sharing.
Wow, superb content, absolute legends.
And it was fun too :)
Fantastic show. Two awesome, super humble incredibly talented fellows. Sharing their mutual respect, hard work and dedication, overcoming life's obstacles and nothing wasted to ego.
Ps. Still have a gem of a tandem, filet brazed Santana by Ross.
And who doesn't like experiencing some road circuit racing?! Gets into ones veins and worth every second. Also got a kick out of his mention of the Yam RZ350 two smoke. Ironic I too bought one back then (K.Roberts sig theme yellow/ black) awhile on the other spectrum by having an '82 Honda CBX 6 (+ added turbo). Fun memories.
this was so great, thanks!
Thank you!!
Really enjoyed this chat! Looking forward to more!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Only 56mins long.....
When YT is good, it's captivating. This was captivating.
Great interview! Some really really cool stories. Please do more of these interviews!
Thank you.
You're welcome!
The Salsafest you rode down to I remember meeting you, you rode a motorcycle with a yellow frame that you built with a Vincent motor? Great interview with Ross. Lots of good memories from that era.
You are correct. It was a Vincent, but no yellow frame. Thanks for liking our interview....
@@paulbrodie was it green?
I need to look at my old Polaroids.
thank you Paul and Ross
Love this! I’m a old engine builder. We didn’t have many friends that would share. Lol no internet back then so you really had to study up. If you found a group of guys you knew them for life 😊 god bless!!!
I worked at a Salsa adjacent machine shop when Ross still owned Salsa. The owner of the shop and one of my coworkers both owned Salsas and I thought that they were way cooler than what I was riding. On a personal note the bike industry had some great people in it and Ross was one of them.
Yes, Ross is a great guy. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Good interview, great backdrop !
Loved the show. What a fantastic interview with Ross. Much love from Texas
And I see lives completing themselves.....wonderful guys
Thank you :)
Thanks Paul, I didn't know much about the Salsa story.
Wonderful video. I made it to one Salsafest myself, back in the day. Great to hear the stories from these two great frame builders! Love this type of content!
Thank you, Paul, that was just super interesting. I also grew up in Los Angeles/SoCal in the sixties and seventies, had a Sting Ray and a paper route, and a bike was definitely the way to see and do stuff. Next was my Nishiki Grand Prix for $139, and so far I'm just shy of 3000 miles with the club this year...all thanks to bicycles and bicycle people like you.
Dave, thanks for commenting!
@@paulbrodieMy pleasure! I forgot to mention that a week or two back you had asked for feedback and who to talk to etc, and I mentioned Portland builder Ira Ryan…re-upping that suggestion. And, of course it may be a good time to talk to Paul Sadoff about the current scene AND his and his team’s CX racing!
Cheers
Fantastic production Mitch! Great chat
This is amazing! Thank you 🙏🏼 very kindly
You're so welcome!
Thank you for this!! Convos like this are so valuable. Cheers to you both - for all your hard work and for the impact you've had in this amazing community.
What a great episode, thoroughly enjoyable. I hope your health is ok too.
This was great! Really love hearing the stories.
What a fantastic conversation - bravo chaps! The very first edition of MBUK I bought - August 1992 - had the legendary Jason McRoy (🙏) riding an A La Carte on a the cover, therefore you played a big part in sparking my passion for mountain biking. So for that, a very big thank you!
we lost Jason far too soon! RIP J!
😍😍😍 A M A Z I N G !
Great video fellas. Glad to see, Paul looking a bit better than the last video.
Pure joy start to finish, love you both.
I worked at Santana before Ross and I'm surprised he got good at fillet brazing there -- the fillets were super lumpy when I worked there! Hopefully they got better between my stint there and his...
Hi Mark, hey were certainly lumpy when I hit the torch there at first! Kiki his clean-up crew and thousands of fillet brazed joints helped me get on target.
this was such an amazing conversation, that you so much for sharing it. seriously
Great convo. 30+ years on, Paul is still slightly annoyed that Ross and Bruce showed up at 4pm that day as he was leaving 😂
Great, love to see you making this type of shop talk content as well.
Really good stuff! It's great with the technology today, can capture this history from people that lived and created it. People will be watching and enjoying this for for a long time to come. 👍
That was fun. You can do a lot more of this.
This was a great departure. Ross got to ask only one question of Paul and asked the best question.
Very enjoyable chat, hope you have some more guests lined up!
Excellent!
I'm quite happy, now that I've seen this. 😊
I really enjoyed your conversation!
Great show!
Here in New Mexico we call them “chiles” rather than “peppers”, and we know from chiles!
From world-famous Hatch green chile to the insiders-only Chimayo red chile, New Mexico knows chile! One taste, and you are hooked for life, y’all should come and get a sample.
Thank you for the great content.
Thank you. I do like a little spice!
Yum! Glad you enjoyed our chat. Sadly my 69 year old guts can no longer process all the flaming hot stuff I indulged in (maybe too much!) in earlier years
Great pod! I know the involvement ended a long time ago, but I've had so much fun on many different Salsa bikes over the years - most recently my Fargo (Colonel Mustard). I think QBP captured the spirit.
Great stories on my old Sovereign too.
That was great, thanks gentlemen.
That was fun. I hope we get more of this.
Absolutely amazing hour of awesome!
G'day Paul,
I really enjoyed your video. Please send our thanks to Ross for sharing.
Thanks
Andrew
Nice to hear some good bike history
Great stuff lads!
beautiful. Do another interview with Ross please!
Regarding Ross' comments on Made bike show and the "jewellery" he talks about, I remember Tom Ritchey commenting "There's a heck of a lot of art going on..." and leaving it at that. Sometimes it might be for brand recognition, such as days gone by with racing on unbranded bikes and manufacturers such as Hetchins with their "curly" stays, other times it really is just an exercise in excess... and nothing exceeds like excess.
Either way, it's fun to see, but I do love a bit of simplicity like we had back in the 1980s. Sadly we didn't see much here in the 1980's due to import tariffs, we shrunk down to around 2 major brands and the best that either offered were frames made from gaspipe.
Yes, there is Art in bicycles, and I hope that stays. :)
I have an identical trestle table in my garage it was my fathers he used it as a make shift desk in his site office, once the line was completed the desk came home and was pretty much in regular use for the next fifty years, family gatherings out on loan etc. That was back in 64/65 . Great to have a biggish table that folds flat and stores away. I remember the scout group I belonged to had loads of trestle tables from the twenties the 1920's they saw no end of use fetes , jumble sales, xmas parties, whist drives. I wonder are they still going ?
ok, time for more coffee. my garden is grown to provide Salsa.
Thank you both for your time, only question would be, front brake lever on the right on the bicycle. Or your mind us faster than mine
Funny how climbing up the ladder for faster and better will put you on Italian Motorcycles.
When things become hand built, Your standards rise.
Will never look at Salsa the same after this show.
Thanks. !!!
What a fantastic episode. The discussions made me very nostalgic for when most bikes were very "boutiquish". Now, they are very cookie-cutter and generic.