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  1. Thylacine

    Custom bike builders and lag time

    Send in the Marines! Mikey has lost his capacity for humour! :p
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    Custom bike builders and lag time

    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...
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    Custom bike builders and lag time

    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...
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    Custom bike builders and lag time

    Maybe 13 year olds with 5 grand to spend on a scooter is the next untapped niche?
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    Custom bike builders and lag time

    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...
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    Custom bike builders and lag time

    When you've been building the exact same frame for 30 years, your leadtime could be 30 years and it wouldn't make a scrap of difference. :thumb:
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    Custom bike builders and lag time

    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...
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    Custom bike builders and lag time

    Take heed of Uncle Buck, for he know of what he speaketh.
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    Custom bike builders and lag time

    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 :weee:
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    Custom bike builders and lag time

    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...
  11. Thylacine

    QR15 - Aftermarket Alternative "QR's"?

    Does anyone know if any companies offer aftermarket QR15 'skewer-axles'? The Fox one I have does the job, but it's a bit....'unbling'.
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    Riding in Burundi

    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'.
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    another frivolous lawsuit from a major corporation...

    Wow, two of you guys have dropped them as sponsors? I'm completely impressed, and I don't even impress that often.
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    BOYCOTT Monster Energy Drinks

    You know, I'm normally much faster than this. Not Sam Hill fast, but hey, I need to leave room in my brain for thoughts n stuff.
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    BOYCOTT Monster Energy Drinks

    View and discuss?
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    Rims! I figured it out!

    Yeah, can't say I had much luck keeping my Salsas straight. These new Blunts better be better, or else I'm going back to 26 ;)
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    Frame design

    Ted, I think this is the first thing in history designed by committee that looks like it won't end up like this : Kudos to you for that!
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    Into the Wild the movie

    He's a prankster that God fella. I wanna party with that dude.
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    Into the Wild the movie

    two words..... NATURAL and SELECTION.
  20. Thylacine

    Spooky...

    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. :happydance:
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