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Re: Thanks. It was a really interesting factory visit. They're always interesting tbh. That booth is just for the bead blasting process to go from shiny to a tougher matt Ti finish.

A modern look at an old school maker, still hand building Ti in the Rockies. There's a link below to the story on my site... https://www.augustusfarmer.com/mutts-of-moots/

Re: Lovely. My second MTB, and I loved it. 8)

I found a few more from that do a few years ago so I thought they may be of some interest here. Some legends there that day.

Re: Lovely.

Re: I don't even have copies of those images! It's the only job i don't have a backup of. 10yrs, good grief.

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I can't find the story I wrote for Singletrack Magazine to accompany this little factory tour, but here after a surprise hard drive trawl are some of the photographs. Sadly not the pics from boxes of anodised old tat in their loft yet. G

He was a nice guy. Posed for one of my now requisite work selfies (before I was a lean road biker)...

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I wrote up a few words on the time I went to Eddy Merckx and Jacky Icx's birthday bash expo and Eddy launched a ltd edition steel bike with Campag. Link to the story here: https://www.augustusfarmer.com/i-suppos ... d-my-name/ Few pics here that I took for Retrobike but didn't put in the...

Re: Lovely. Would've been ideal but all done now. Thanks though.

I have posted a story on my site that I wrote for an American Magazine after passing out on the marble floor of the master's cycling museum at the Colnago factory. If you'd like a read on me, there's a link below: https://www.augustusfarmer.com/dont-bri ... o-colnago/ Thanks. G

Re: Quite lovely. Pierre, I have PM'd you. Gus

I've uploaded to my site an old story I made on a visit to Nalini nearly a decade ago now. A proper old school cycle clothing manufacturer still going strong and making clothes for a few of the others as a sideline. Anyway, old school clothing production still endures... Link to the story...

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Forgive me if I've posted this previously, i have the vague excuse my memory ability was damaged in my near fatal RTA two years ago (that and I'm old)... Here are a few pics from a visit to Orange in Halifax I made a few years ago for an American MTB magazine. Link to the story I wrote and...

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RB family... Going through my hard drives and updating my website, I'm popping a few pics up here that i think although not retro, may just interest some here. If not, mods - please bin. These from the last Giro I photographed - 2016 i think it was. The client was Campag so there's a bias of...

Found these photographs this morning that I made for our first Retrobike calendar back in 2008. I remember now the calendar company misprinted the dates for February so all the following months were wrong! and they were a calendar specific printers! Happy days.