One fantastic part of the house is the uber man cave that is in the process of the being ground zero for the Olivetti Bicycle Company.
Building out the garage has been arduous but also pretty fun. Some of this shit is fricken heavy, for example the 30 sandstone slabs the previous owners left for us perchance our bulletproof front walkway decomposes. Another great part is the fact that, in this photograph and in reality, now see everything in the shop. That was courtesy of Mr. Devine and his Electric Company. Get in touch with the man for all your electrical needs or if you would like to get crushed on a wednesday morning ride.
Along these lines here is some progress on some tubesets I am work on. 1 for me, 1 for the Kiwi, and 1 for T. Buck.
With any luck I should be taking possession of a "get the job done" type jig next week, with the real deal coming the end of July from Jeff at Sputnik tools. That will make life a heck of a lot easier, and straighter for that matter.
So, at this point you might ask yourself, how I got from tinkering around on my bike to working on bikes, to building them, to trying to build a handmade american bicycle empire, that may or may not be limited exclusively to the mill valley area? Well that's easy. You just ask mister Gordon, of design fame and Fuckawfs fortune, to help you get there. And after a few hours you get a business plan that is clear and concise, and looks a little like this.
Doesn't get much clearer than that! A map to success without a doubt. In all reality, The Gordon and an amazing sense of what it takes to get your products off the ground and into the hands of the people that want them, even if they don't know it yet.
We the real and final finally that is really the best part of today's post is that I woke up today to realize that I had my first pretty much Father's day today. The Lady dropped me a little note that, well frankly, brought this hombre to a bit of eye rain. Its a pretty special part of our lives and I can't wait to start getting the beat down by that little bugger. In a homage to all those requests I get to photograph at the ggb. Here is my iphone rendition.
Alrighty until the next time!
