Shop envy
 

Sure, I've got a pretty sweet setup, if I do say so myself.

But there's always greener grass.

This guy has disabled downloading, so I'll just link it.

Clean, and oh, the bikes...
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5668/2...16699721_b.jpg

I'm abstaining from commercial framebuilder shops, but I'll make one exception.

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7510/2...268fa710_b.jpg

Ballroom, eh? Didn't need one before. Now I do.

Hmmm, maybe if I put that new bike on top of the cabinets she won't notice it.

And a proper sound system.

Was that first picture from the guy who has a Herse for every day of the week, and whose job is to ride around photojournalling his every bicycle ride?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Does Le Atelier Gugie accept donations?
I have some true temper tubes, HJames lugs, Quickchanger* (*tm) dropouts, silver wire, etc to donate.

Never mind the sound system, I need a chandelier!

Doesn't everyone?

In this forum? Yes, definitely. :) BTW, got the sound system covered: non-fixie's wikid wrenching widdims.

But if you're getting a ballroom, shouldn't you be looking for a disco ball?

:) You're forgetting I'm a real European. This would make a nice shop, IMHO:

https://myalbum.com/photo/RPYfwVoIbsme/1k0.jpg

Very nice, Inspiring.

Well, my setup is far more primitive than that, but I also don't mind getting it really messy:

https://c4.staticflickr.com/6/5507/3...b1501b2c16.jpgInnerSanctum3.jpg

https://c6.staticflickr.com/8/7551/3...5e9bf6ccec.jpgInnerSanctum2.jpg

These nice folks will hook you up.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/10329

Not at all, that's a great look! It's got Man Cave written all over it.

That looks like a nice shop. Yours?
Richard Sachs'?

I am most intrigued by that nice machine on the right hand side of the pic.
Looks like a cool old bench top mill, but I wonder what kind?
Do you know?

The light looks pretty good anyway....

I wish! It's The Man's

Oh, I don't show the meat hooks in that pic.

A few BFers have been in my basement, including [MENTION=238716]TimmyT[/MENTION] and [MENTION=73614]rhm[/MENTION], but they're sworn to secrecy.

Ah, right. He has some wonderful machines.

My tongue was cut out so I wouldn't speak of the horrors done to bikes in the Brookline Bike Busters Basement

In the summer of 1984 my father persuaded Felix Wankel to give him --and me-- a tour of Wankel's experimental workshop in Lindau, Germany. The shop was a free standing building, around a hundred feet square. Except for offices down one side, the rest of it was workshop space. It was configured in such a way that any wall could be removed so stuff could be moved in and out, and there was a system of overhead rails, from which any piece of equipment in the whole shop could be lifted and moved to any spot in the building. And he had every conceivable type of shop machine in there. At the time he was working on a kind of hydrofoil rescue boat that could move through storms completely unaffected by waves. He had been working on this project for many years, but hadn't given up on it yet. The experimental boat was not present at the time (the Lake of Constance is just a few feet from the building), but periodically they'd take out one wall of the workshop, bring the boat in, and make changes.

Anyway, that workshop was the workshop to end all workshops. Glass walls, natural light, every machine tool ever patented (and many that hadn't been patented), and in good weather, a panoramic view of the Swiss Alps (not to mention the occasional topless woman walking by on the beach).

+1 on the wikid wrenching widdiums. If ever there was bike wrenching music this is it. :thumb:

Oh, to see some pictures...

Yeah, I know, but I didn't have a camera with me :cry:

Wankel died only a few years later. The building has changed hands a few times, and from the current photos it appears (a) it's been emptied out and (b) maybe my memory is not 100% accurate. You judge:

Lindauschool | raumhochrosen - Heike Schlauch


Here's a photo from long ago: http://www.ro80club.org/sites/defaul...31013_8145.jpg

By the way... now, if you google "Wankel workshop lindau" and look at the images, the images from this thread come up. :bang: