It is certainly not in T-shirts of the retarded jewelers. I mean come on....you are not a frame builder unless you live and pay your bills by selling frames. No amount of willy twilly crap will make you a builder if you are not one already. Some people like Dave B. are just not cut out to be builders, again we run into the issue of some people wanting to be builders, but they completely lack the skills to even build a spoked wheelset by hand. I find this to be an utter outrage!!!
Plus...how the hell can you teach a class on building if you are just a jeweler? Come on does it really take that long to teach someone crap? I have taught over 200 students in 5 days or less. And yes you are busting your ass for those five days, but what do you expect? Sympathy? An easy ride? A nice vacation? Not happening here at Zanotti Cycles, you can expect to get hammered, challenged, tried, beaten up, and in the end, you will actually be better than these cry-babys who wear girl pants, and ride fixes, and make stupid shirts. For gods sake, there is a group of us builders who are actually sick of responding to these idiots on the web. There is a lot of Theorycraft=Some people who are still trying to be smart, and talk about stuff they have no idea about. But alas, we have to see this stuff in our in-boxes every... fracking...day....$200 off my framebuilding course if you can tie that reference.
Alas, there are fucking idiots that just want to post crap about how interesting they are in the community. And well, I am not one of them, I am currently teaching an elite crew of people, and well I am one of those guys that is POLARIZING. You either am on deck with me, or you want to shoot me...well that is if you had the brains to use a gun in the first place, but your girl pants wont let you stow one in that tight waist will it? Ficking girl-man. That said...todays post about a girl on a shirt made a fair amount of traffic on the boards. Too bad that the girl was actually Dave B in his best looking dream of his girl pants self. Just leave him alone and let him live his fantasy of being tied up. Everyone has their kinky side, and if Dave wants to be tied up and tripping over his O/A hoses, just let him.
That said, I had a great conversation with a student today who agreed with the function over fashion position that I hold. Orange curshy thingys will fade away, and in the end after the girl pants and 70's haircuts go away....there will be function. My bikes run better, race faster, and are just PLAIN BETTER than anything out on the market. I guarantee it. Make a stupid 29'er with a 1" fork, great....you are an idiot. Make a race bike that can manage 24 hours of hammering, get put away wet and hot and then come back out the next day... well....then you are me.
You want art, call an artist, and be afraid to ride the thing. But I and we make bikes that are worth riding, and they will hold your ass on the lines down Page Mill, Old La Honda, and Kings Mountain Roads. You want to match your canary to the color of your bike, then let's do it. But I can't see building a bike around "colorways". Get it...if not then search youtube for the video and move to Portland and drink some coffee. I build bikes around PERFORMANCE. YOU get to make it pretty. I am a blue and white type of guy, so please come to my table knowing what you want. I will not pick colors for you. I know what I like, and I expect that you know what the hell you like before you call me. It is your suit...like I was telling a client the other day....you pick the fabric, and let me do the fitting and tailoring. You know what you like. So call me when you have that in your hands, or you have it picked out. After that, let me take over, we will work out the details, and I promise you you will be happy......or you can settle for a T-shirt.
