Author Archives: David Kirk
Before & After – Raw to Fade.
This one just came back from JB’s and headed out to its new home. We don’t do too many fades making this one especially fun. Dave
Ten Years – part 9.
2010 When I first sat to make notes about what had happened during any given year for this series I got to 2010 and had trouble remembering anything significant. Did I do nothing in 2010? No — it turns out a good number of things got done and I just couldn’t remember them. Maybe I’m …
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Ten Years – part 8.
The year 2009 was better than 2008 from a business perspective but not by a lot. Or maybe it just felt better. Either way I had enough work to more than keep me busy when a good number of builders called it a day so I’ll call myself fortunate. 2009 was a year of a …
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Ready to ride.
A few posts back I shared some photos of a frameset for Susie from Australia. Well it took a few days longer to get the parts than expected but everything is here and the bike is now built and ready to ride. The cool thing is that I get to hand it over to the …
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Ten Years – part 7.
The year 2008 was full good things and one big not-so-good thing. I think the biggest thing as far as this business goes was that the JK Special was officially offered for sale. I had no idea what to expect when it was introduced but it’s turned out very well. Over time more and more …
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