Thank you I will look it up

There are already bikes in the styles he showed. freight bikes, vendor bikes. They dont come cheap, however. His bikes most likely arent cheap, either. Especially since he is making bespoke bikes, custom bikes

I think if he went online like that with it, it would no longer be bespoke - he would have to make a sub brand for his "somewhat less bespoke" bikes and then it would be like any other cool thing in the past that went that route where you can't really get the good stuff, you are just getting decent stuff endorsed by someone who used to make good stuff. Generally making sub brands and expanding like that beyond what you can really reach is downfall for quality - Hasselblad did that, Apple did that. Both companies are now a lot less respected by professionals seeking the highest quality tools than in the past, I would say quite a lot too. If someone has a dream of making only high quality custom products then I think it is best to only extend yourself to the point where you can still do your work properly - once you get bored it's better to just sell the company and get into something else, otherwise you are downgrading from making artisanal stuff to just peddling things off of your past successes. This generally applies to many things ifteb erroneously sold as custom made like guitars for instance - where you have regular factory runs and then "custom shop" divisions and other bullshit of the sort which is not the same as having a single person making everything from start to finish just for you. I hope the guy stays with his current workshop and continues to make his bikes mostly on his own - just building a regular company and having employes 9-5 and getting fatter as you count your money can be soul killing for people who started with passions for creating rather than just selling stuff.

Borys Pomianek I agree with what your saying Borys Pomianek, exept that passion doesn't pay the bills. Staying true to ones passion is key to just about any type of success. Ultimately, it is up to the business owner to decide how his or her passion is going to be perceived.

northcacalacka545 "passion doesn't pay the bills" - neither does selling out necessarily, especially in such a delicate global economy we have now - say you make a million dollars net and then get burned out, that's not going to be worth the 5 years you spent selling out to get there + the 25 you don't count where you where building up your skills and resources on the side or at schools of all sorts. This is my current situation: where I believe selling out is not what I want to do but also that it does not pay the bills and I have a number of people telling me "hey, check it out, it could pay the bills man, it could pay those bills you have, you could go on vacation". People who spend a lot of time honing their skills like artists of all kinds and artisans hear this all the time, at least I hear it and the people I know do - that they could work at X, Y, Z and that the money is good but the money is not all that good in my opinion - it's not 6 or 7 figures, it's regular money, regular people make and if you put irregular effort into something for many years it can be really soul crushing if you wake up one day in a cubicle. Salesmen tend to say "at the end of the day" - I once tried doing a sales job when I just moved to a new town and quit it after 3 days because found it immoral and disturbing - incidentally everyone at that job used to say "at the end of the day" in almost every sentence when asked about literary anything that could be an issue at work. Nothing was immoral or not worth the potential fallout it can cause because "at the end of the day". So that is true to a degree, time passes and you might forget or not care but I always wanted to tell them that at the end of the day the price for not following your dreams is immense and on your deathbed when you are truly at the end of your day, would you rather not look back at the fantastic things you made rather than just a life of paying bills? So not necessarily aimed at you - it's just my few thoughts about attitudes towards money. I am constantly offered soul crushing jobs where I am supposed to use my artistic related skills and I always wanted to ask those people (I don't because they mean well and I don't want to be rude) what is the point of paying more for living where your work is, getting up every morning, commuting just to work under someone else when I can otherwise do almost whatever I want everyday and when things get rough put away the artistic beret and just take out a metaphorical shovel for a while. Say someone loves reading light fiction books and wants to be a "paperback writer" - does it make sense to climb corpses to work a top job at a big city publishing house, earning a lot and spending a lot and taking part in expensive writing workshops with big name has been writers hoping to make the jump to writing yourself at some point or does it instead make more sense to work in a tiny business of some sorts out in the countryside tending the register where you have a lot of time to read on the side at work and think about your ideas that you can then write about in the evenings? Dominating in business is really only a personal success if you want to be a business man or woman - money can't buy you happiness, it can buy you a boat thought and you can sail all the way up to happiness in it - my point is that the price for that boat in 2015 is hundreds of millions of dollars and just getting an extra figure a year is not worth it :)

Borys Pomianek Aright Borys P. It appears you can type forever. Nothing wrong with that. Not exactly sure how to respond but, IMO, a person should ultimately do what they want to do. Whatever drives them. As long as it is legal. You don't have to make money at something you love to do, just have fun doing it. Work is exactly that, WORK. One should do something that they like doing to make money, but, at the end of the day, you will want to do something else with your time after work.

Word of the week. LOL!!!

+BurningMan Mike he also starts every sentence with the word "So";) Isn't he the terriblest?

Never mind! Found it facebook.com/pages/SyCip-Bicycles/362210118042

Tengo confianza en que el "autotranslating" llegue pronto a un nivel potable y sea fácil seguir cualquiera de los vídeos de Kirsten con subtítulos (activando la opción de subtítulos en varios idiomas que tiene KZfaq). Desafortunadamente, a veces los resultados son un poco erráticos. Espero que pronto no haya barreras idiomáticas. Siento la ausencia de subtítulos.

The film makers husband- the one who was measured for a bike, is Spanish, I think, You can always write him and to edit the Spanish subtitles so that they will be correct. which i think the makers of the video can do, although I am not sure about that.

per sebra I'm, indeed. I was explaining there's an auto-translating option that shows the conversation in English, so I'm sure he'll be able to read the subtitles. Sometimes pronunciation and speed are the biggest barriers.

No, not at all. First, he did indeed weld the frame in a jig. Problem is, welding results with inevitable warping, causing the tubes/frame to lose alignment. Every frame builder experiences this. It's expected and remedied in the next step of production... Second, and most importantly, "bending" the frame is called "cold-setting" the material and it's done industry-wide. This is why alignment tables are massive, immovable and have a really strong bottom bracket clamp - so the builder can properly align the frame. Steel does very well with cold-setting, so you can relax. Without it, your custom, hand-made steel bike would be out of alignment. Head and seat tubes are parallel because of cold setting. Your rear triangle is centered because of cold setting. Your rear dropout spacing is on the millimeter because of cold setting and your dropouts are parallel because of cold setting. Yup. lots of "bending" happens to a frame before you even see it.