Spotted on the street

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

I am speechless! I have read about this bike and Bugatti designing it specifically with smaller diameter tubes set but I thought it was only on paper and he never materialized this design.

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Mar 9, 2023

Art Stump. An American engineer turned frame builder, his work is exemplary. I have tried to find better pictures but to no avail, hang on to your hats. Allegedly 1000 man hours in each frame.

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In 1937 Bugatti designed a very unique, space-frame, bicycle which was never produced. The drawings for this bicycle were provided to Californian Art Stump in the 1970s by a noted English Bugatti collector who commissioned him to build a bicycle based on the drawings. Art Stump built one for that collector, and one for himself as well. A source tells me, "Art probably updated the...

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[Dicky71]

Centurion was New York but the rest are in Glasgow.
There’s a very odd mix of what seems to be targeted and not targeted here. It’s a special kind of fear having to park my bike next to this whilst popping into Sainsbury’s for some vegetables (probably 3 minutes max)…

Came back a few days later and the shifters and handlebars were gone. They were kind enough to replace the headset top cap and spacers which I found off but there you go

Did you miss the condition of the rear wheel?

 

[MattiThundrrr]

I found a sweet little shop in Kensington Market, downtown Toronto. They're making some sick customs from vintage bikes, lot of fixie focus, but some nice parts and cool goodies.

They even had a super friendly shop cat for the Lads to mess around with whilst I talked to the shopkeeper. Check this monster out:
Bars seem... unattainable
It is waiting for a bigger ring. Yes, that's not enough for the rider. Remember, it is fixed gear
Plenty of old Pugs, some Raleighs, a PK Ripper, their own line of titanium fixie frames, a full suspension Klein
Yes, that's a folding Peugeot in the foreground. ThundrrrJr bought some skull valve caps and I got some brown Vans grips for Duck Norris. The owner had a bunch of vintage jerseys too, the highlight being a knitted Raleigh jersey, which I somehow neglected to photograph

 

[vtwinvince]

Cool looking place. I've never seen a stem mounted below the head tube.