On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:51 PM, JoelMatthews<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Maybe it's time for someone to start up an
>> enterprise like that again, or at least some sort of collective where
>> a handful of builders can share a common marketing and office
>> operation.
>
> In the Bay area you have Inglis, Bruce Gordon and Sycip (maybe other)
> designing and building their own great bikes.  Design only you have at
> least Riv, Swobo, Jitensha, Soma.  Maybe there is some way the
> designers and builders could join up and create a process to build
> stock lugged steel frames in batches.   Or am I getting too much 'We
> are the world!' here?


That's exactly what i'm thinking of. Mike Flanigan is sort of a
one-man version of this, with his own Boston Roadster model, but it
seems like there oughta be enough of a market from designers to
support a small independent framebuilding production shop.

-- 
Bill Connell
St. Paul, MN

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