I should have pedaled to the Minnecycle Framebuilders Collaborative Display this evening. Instead I drove the KIA to Vine Arts Center on 27th Ave. S and 26th Street. And there I saw THE best looking, coolest custom-built bikes on the face of the earth.
Twelve designer/builders in all. Gorgeous, exquisite and spendy bikes and frames. Fixies, commuters, mountain bikes, randonneurs, even a unicylce!
I met young builders, like Alex Cook of A-Train Cycles, who is just about to hang out his shingle full time, but didn't mind posing for a goofy foto for PPV.
Curt Goodrich told me he'd been at it for 16 years -- "still standing," as he put it. "Not so much hair as before, but I've been able to make a living at it." And what incredible machines he delivers to bike aficionados all over the country.
The show goes on tomorrow nite, 9/24. Minnecycle.org and/or vineartscenter.org if you get the chance to check it out.
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