trailwright
GT Fan
1991 GT Xizang LE
The titanium weld and detail appreciation thread.
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fguki
Senior Retro Guru
1992 FUNK Combat Titanium frame welds - one of the earliest with the thick block decal design still off of the later typical FUNK font - and also not with the thinner font. Welded by engineer and designer Paolo Salvagione for FUNK (Swift Cycles - the ones with the flying bird in the logo).
1993 MERLIN Titanium bottom bracket welds:
1993 MERLIN Titanium bottom bracket welds:
@trailwright - another nice Sandvik. Was this originally an highly polished finish?
trailwright
GT Fan
grantoury
Kona Fan
I found your thread, but the photos were missing, although there were a couple in another thread, please share some more pics of the Passoni. It is a dream bike for me.
+3 @24pouces - who cares if it's not an MTB. They did and will still do custom MTBs. It's of a calibre worth sharing.
I would need to play Russian roulette with myself aka "The Deer Hunter" if money was no object between a Moots and Passoni.
They are both companies at their peak but have a very different way to get to an outstanding end result. Dean would be a third option.
PS: @ferrus - poor Vernon. Here is work from at the time a fairly local Swedish aircraft certified emergency welder who had qualification rights to patch up grounded aircraft even on the runway.
Paragon Works disk tab from the USA, my own made jig, locally welded with after a 45min regional commuter train hand carrying the frame, proper Ti weld for about 15 of the GB pounds. Less than 20 mins work. Done in a shared apartment house basement where his workshop was. I almost had kittens that such a place could still exist but his reputation for keeping aircraft in the air magically trumped a few H&S points.
Not that pretty, and I didn't expect it to be. I expected the job to be done right and it was. For reference a 1994-ish Parkpre Pro Elite.
I would need to play Russian roulette with myself aka "The Deer Hunter" if money was no object between a Moots and Passoni.
They are both companies at their peak but have a very different way to get to an outstanding end result. Dean would be a third option.
PS: @ferrus - poor Vernon. Here is work from at the time a fairly local Swedish aircraft certified emergency welder who had qualification rights to patch up grounded aircraft even on the runway.
Paragon Works disk tab from the USA, my own made jig, locally welded with after a 45min regional commuter train hand carrying the frame, proper Ti weld for about 15 of the GB pounds. Less than 20 mins work. Done in a shared apartment house basement where his workshop was. I almost had kittens that such a place could still exist but his reputation for keeping aircraft in the air magically trumped a few H&S points.
Not that pretty, and I didn't expect it to be. I expected the job to be done right and it was. For reference a 1994-ish Parkpre Pro Elite.
