[craiglists]Brodie's Jigs!

[john]

http://vancouver.en.craigslist.ca/rds/b ... 58047.html

For the aspiring builder!

 

[Sithlord]

:shock: Oh! how I wish I had skilled hands .. :roll:

 

[Anthony]

Cripes, that's well spotted!

Interesting bit of history there, "4000+ handbuilt brodie frames over a 15 year period" I believe he started around 1986, maybe overlapping slightly with working for Rocky Mountain, so he's saying 4,000+ frames from c1986 to c2001, c250 frames per annum average. Presumably alongside the Brodie Bikes business that for some of that time was more or less going on without him. It sounds as though somebody with more business acumen bought the Brodie Bikes name off him and built up the business into what it is now, and I believe Paul just has some vague 'consultant' role with Brodie Bikes now, if even that.

I didn't know he'd been building bike frames as recently as five years ago, but I hope he only stopped because he prefers building motorbikes and not because he had no demand for his mtb frames.

 

[neilll]

Cripes, that's well spotted!

Interesting bit of history there, "4000+ handbuilt brodie frames over a 15 year period" I believe he started around 1986, maybe overlapping slightly with working for Rocky Mountain,

He started at RM in '84, prior to that he was already building frames, its sad he's dumping this stuff.....one day I had it in mind to get him to build me somthing 'nice'

Oh well!!

 

[RockiMtn]

whoops, didn't see this thread here in my haste to post what i had found out.

anyway, pics can be found here…

http://retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=79845