Originally Posted by HereNT
Wow - I never knew that shop (Braxton in Missoula) was quite that cool. There was a bookstore where the shop was last time I was in Missoula. They never were too popular with the locals, as I recal - a lot higher end stuff than anyone in town was willing to pay. But it was a University town with a lot of trustafundians coming in with really nice bikes that were promptly stolen. If you knew the right people, a really nice MTB was not hard to find. I don't think I ever saw a fix there, and very few road bikes. Touring wasn't a local thing, so we didn't go to that shop much (it was about a mile away from where I grew up, on south ave)... I rode past it all the time in middle and high school.
Weird how biking makes the world small again, isn't it?
Some guy in Colorado, gave it to my brother, who gave it to me in the last two years.
Probably some pretty country to see, touring in Montana?
Supposedly Braxton was a good bike builder