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Hi Sumo!

Link to another thread in case anyone's interested...

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/380532/

Volunteers wanted for Bespoked.
DAS

And then didn't know how to delete.
Old people...

Oops, posted twice.

Frames may well cost more if they are hand-built. In my experience this does not equate to frame Builders pulling in riches. The investment in equipping a workshop, learning a complex trade and crafting beautiful machines is only done by extremely driven people.
I think it would be mistaken to imagine that those building cycle frames are doing so primarily from a profit motive.
My opinion is that the show is a wonderful opportunity to see the best that there is in hand crafted frames.
My father was lucky enough to get his frame built at the start of the post war light weight continental style era by what was one of the most innovative builders. But it cost him a packet and the frame builder wasn't paid much and the shop owners didn't become rich.
I think that even with what seem high prices nowadays it would represent a smaller proportion of one's income than it would have been in nineteen fifty one to my dad as an electrical engineering apprentice.
I've watched the frame building trade die out almost completely and then re-emerge in the last fifteen years. I regard it as one of the good things in the World today.
Sorry to rant
I agree that businesses should not be structured on free labour, of course I do, I'm appalled that so many jobs require some sort of internship. This makes them only accessible to the moneyed classes. I think the show is barely a business, I think it's a celebration of something that was once lost and is now found.
This is Digger's opinion and is not presented to contend or offend.
Do a skid

I think it costs a fortune to put on Arvy.

Bespoked need volunteers for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Lea Valley Velodrome, Stratford.
Volunteers will be fed, watered and recieve high end goody bag. So if you'd like to see the fruits of the best frame Builders labour's for free and be part of an amazing event...
Here's the link:-

https://bespoked.cc/volunteer/

Do a skid

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What the title says...

Short, jolly, in an empty London. ..

Hi @Hispanicmechanic, you're very welcome as are your chums. It's not a restrictive ride, bring what you want. Digs

9am, Oxford Circus, same as it ever was, the look on my face...

Clock is ticking...

So, well then there now, twelve years but these surely wouldn't be the proper length years now?
Meet up, chat, ride, look at stuff, drink coffee, take group pic.

Well then there now. ..

I put this up, any good?
https://www.facebook.com/events/174631053125834/

Well done CB, was meaning to get on this...
Have you linked to FB?

I'm crying a bit, you're so beautiful.

Well that was a great evening, thanks VB, so many peeps that have been and continue to be so important in my life. Next event soon please.

I'm at look mum...

K T F F UP!
Mix - Lou Johnson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSCIbTU8B0k&list=RDEMXsQAtLQh1u6DIV1W1ztg8g
&v=dSCIbTU8B0k

Hairs rising on the back of my neck!

Have the bright times crew not weighed in?

Ahh, is it that time already?

What a nice time, Miss T and I are now at Crisis...
Nothing left to do but wait for next year.