Shop envy
12-08-16 | 12:18 PM
#1
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Bike Butcher of Portland
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Bikes: It's complicated.
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...
I'm abstaining from commercial framebuilder shops, but I'll make one exception.
But there's always greener grass.
This guy has disabled downloading, so I'll just link it.
Clean, and oh, the bikes...
I'm abstaining from commercial framebuilder shops, but I'll make one exception.
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If someone tells you that you have enough bicycles and you don't need any more, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
If someone tells you that you have enough bicycles and you don't need any more, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
12-08-16 | 12:25 PM
#2
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From: South Holland, NL
Bikes: Yes, please.
Ballroom, eh? Didn't need one before. Now I do.
12-08-16 | 12:42 PM
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Hmmm, maybe if I put that new bike on top of the cabinets she won't notice it.
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N = '96 Colnago C40, '04 Wilier Alpe D'Huez, '10 Colnago EPS, '85 Merckx Pro, '89 Merckx Century, '86 Tommasini Professional, '04 Teschner Aero FX Pro, '05 Alan Carbon Cross, '86 De Rosa Professional, '95 Gios Compact Pro, '95 Carrera Zeus, ‘81 Masi Gran Criterium, ‘81 Merckx Pro, ‘89 Cinelli Supercorsa, ‘83 Bianchi Specialissima, ‘VO Randonneur, Ritchey Breakaway Steel, Rivendell Rambouillet, Heron Randonneur, ‘92 Ciöcc Columbus EL
12-08-16 | 12:43 PM
#4
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Bike Butcher of Portland
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From: Portland, OR
Bikes: It's complicated.
And a proper sound system.
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If someone tells you that you have enough bicycles and you don't need any more, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
If someone tells you that you have enough bicycles and you don't need any more, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
12-08-16 | 12:44 PM
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Bikes: Mostly English - predominantly Raleighs
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?
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12-08-16 | 12:49 PM
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Bikes: Bikes??? Thought this was social media?!?
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.
Does Le Atelier Gugie accept donations?
I have some true temper tubes, HJames lugs, Quickchanger* (*tm) dropouts, silver wire, etc to donate.
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Vintage, modern, e-road. It is a big cycling universe.
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12-08-16 | 12:54 PM
#7
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From: South Holland, NL
Bikes: Yes, please.
And a proper sound system.
12-08-16 | 01:04 PM
#8
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Bike Butcher of Portland
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From: Portland, OR
Bikes: It's complicated.
12-08-16 | 01:15 PM
#9
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From: South Holland, NL
Bikes: Yes, please.
In this forum? Yes, definitely. 
BTW, got the sound system covered: non-fixie's wikid wrenching widdims.
BTW, got the sound system covered: non-fixie's wikid wrenching widdims.
Last edited by non-fixie; 12-08-16 at 01:19 PM. Reason: added link for clarity
12-08-16 | 01:32 PM
#11
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From: South Holland, NL
Bikes: Yes, please.
You're forgetting I'm a real European. This would make a nice shop, IMHO:
12-08-16 | 02:24 PM
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Bikes: 2017 Cervelo P3, 2018 Giant TCR Team Pro,2016 Giant Defy,1988 Giant RS940,19?? Ventura, 1984 Raleigh Pursuit, 1994 Bianchi Premio
Very nice, Inspiring.
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...
I'm abstaining from commercial framebuilder shops, but I'll make one exception.
But there's always greener grass.
This guy has disabled downloading, so I'll just link it.
Clean, and oh, the bikes...
I'm abstaining from commercial framebuilder shops, but I'll make one exception.
12-08-16 | 03:48 PM
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Well, my setup is far more primitive than that, but I also don't mind getting it really messy:
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12-08-16 | 05:32 PM
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Last edited by due ruote; 12-08-16 at 05:36 PM.
12-08-16 | 06:09 PM
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Bike Butcher of Portland
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From: Portland, OR
Bikes: It's complicated.
Well, my setup is far more primitive than that, but I also don't mind getting it really messy:
InnerSanctum3.jpg
InnerSanctum2.jpg
InnerSanctum3.jpg InnerSanctum2.jpg
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If someone tells you that you have enough bicycles and you don't need any more, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
If someone tells you that you have enough bicycles and you don't need any more, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
12-08-16 | 06:20 PM
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From: Wherever
12-08-16 | 06:23 PM
#18
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From: Portland, OR
Bikes: It's complicated.
I wish! It's The Man's
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If someone tells you that you have enough bicycles and you don't need any more, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
If someone tells you that you have enough bicycles and you don't need any more, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
12-08-16 | 06:31 PM
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12-09-16 | 07:51 AM
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Bikes: Black Mountain Cycles Road and canti MX, Cannondale CAAD12, Bob Jackson Vigorelli
My tongue was cut out so I wouldn't speak of the horrors done to bikes in the Brookline Bike Busters Basement
12-09-16 | 10:02 AM
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Bikes: 1940s Fothergill, 1959 Allegro Special, 1963? Claud Butler Olympic Sprint, Lambert 'Clubman', 1974 Fuji "the Ace", 1976 Holdsworth 650b conversion rando bike, 1983 Trek 720 tourer, 1984 Counterpoint Opus II, 1993 Basso Gap, 2010 Downtube 8h, and...
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).
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).
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12-09-16 | 10:27 AM
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From: Pacific Northwest
Bikes: Yes.
In this forum? Yes, definitely. BTW, got the sound system covered: non-fixie's wikid wrenching widdims.
BTW, got the sound system covered: non-fixie's wikid wrenching widdims.
12-09-16 | 11:43 AM
#24
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From: Portland, OR
Bikes: It's complicated.
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).
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).
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If someone tells you that you have enough bicycles and you don't need any more, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
If someone tells you that you have enough bicycles and you don't need any more, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
12-09-16 | 11:52 AM
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Yeah, I know, but I didn't have a camera with me 
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:
By the way... now, if you google "Wankel workshop lindau" and look at the images, the images from this thread come up.
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:
By the way... now, if you google "Wankel workshop lindau" and look at the images, the images from this thread come up.
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