There's also a bit of the distinctly American trait of "I'm paying, so I can do/say/expect anything I want because I have bought you and you are now my slave." mentality in the custom bike business. I also noticed it last time I was in the US when I followed an order for food with the word...
You're not wrong. I'd almost hazard a guess that the front end stuff takes more time and resources than actually building the thing.
Kinda like the fact that your favourite band isn't in the music business, they're in the t-shirt sales and marketing business that just happens to have a...
I'm a big fan of round tubing - never found any shaped tubing (aside from taper-swaged, but that's a rare beast) that I thought brought anything functional to the table.
I don't want to get into discussions about price etc. here, but if you want to have a chat, email me or look me up on...
The only thing that is applicable is to look at how efficiently you do things, but in a very small custom shop, the things that blow out timeframes more often than not have nothing to do with efficiency, and a vast amount of things are way out of our control.
If it's just one or two guys...
And 5 years later, they look like Flickr Photo Download: Thy-PowellASLTi-02.jpg@@AMEPARAM@@http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2620/4000379832_376abeed7e_o_d.jpg@@AMEPARAM@@4000379832@@AMEPARAM@@376abeed7e_o
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Okay, I'll briefly firstly explain our leadtimes which 90% of builds fall within, and then I'll explain why MikeD's took so long.
90% of our frame builds get delivered within the stated 8 weeks from sign-off. 2 weeks for materials acquisition and design drafting, 4 weeks for construction, 2...
Man I wish my I9's would show up, then I will be able to top this lot with pix from exotic locales such as the You Yangs, Bunyip, Wombat, and an even more exotic place called 'Forrest'.
lol, try typing that over at mtbr.com and watch them flame the **** outta you.
Good luck with the Spookys. Always thought they were clean, well thought out frames and it would be ace to see them kickin' on the trails again.
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