The beginning is where hope is. Nothing has gone wrong. Just materials on a surface. A chance to get it right. To redeem myself for the last one and those before it that went sideways. You want emotion? Feelings? Anxiety? Try fulfilling dreams. And expectations.

The fascination I (once) had with perfection has lately become an interest in elegance. Defining it. Channeling it. Embracing it. I think about how to bring back the elegance because I don’t feel enough of it around in daily life.

In one tsunami of a zeitgeist change, different (and better, and more efficient, and cheaper…) ways of doing the same thing replaced what was. Bicycle frames were once made. Now, like almost everything else, they’re manufactured. The future happened.

I wanted to deconstruct all of it so that only the logo was applied, and have no artsy devices cluttering it up. These here are some renderings, most variations on the same two or three themes. I couldn’t get to where I wanted, but eventually got close by Y2K. Little by little. One element removed at a time.

To this day, there are those who think you need a fitting, have to spend hours in front of a fitter while you’re sweating on a stationary bicycle in some fit studio, and do it all while listening to Olivia Newton John through the earbuds.
 I listen to other things.

All of it revolves around elegance. You want the lugs thinned a bit. Eliminate high and low spots. Make sure the flow is complete from top to bottom from side to side from front to back and that the same intention spreads to each lug so the job is the sum rather than the parts.

The beginning is where hope is. Nothing has gone wrong. Just materials on a surface. A chance to get it right. To redeem myself for the last one and those before it that went sideways. You want emotion? Feelings? Anxiety? Try fulfilling dreams. And expectations.

The fascination I (once) had with perfection has lately become an interest in elegance. Defining it. Channeling it. Embracing it. I think about how to bring back the elegance because I don’t feel enough of it around in daily life.

In one tsunami of a zeitgeist change, different (and better, and more efficient, and cheaper…) ways of doing the same thing replaced what was. Bicycle frames were once made. Now, like almost everything else, they’re manufactured. The future happened.

I wanted to deconstruct all of it so that only the logo was applied, and have no artsy devices cluttering it up. These here are some renderings, most variations on the same two or three themes. I couldn’t get to where I wanted, but eventually got close by Y2K. Little by little. One element removed at a time.

To this day, there are those who think you need a fitting, have to spend hours in front of a fitter while you’re sweating on a stationary bicycle in some fit studio, and do it all while listening to Olivia Newton John through the earbuds.
 I listen to other things.

All of it revolves around elegance. You want the lugs thinned a bit. Eliminate high and low spots. Make sure the flow is complete from top to bottom from side to side from front to back and that the same intention spreads to each lug so the job is the sum rather than the parts.

The beginning is where hope is. Nothing has gone wrong. Just materials on a surface. A chance to get it right. To redeem myself for the last one and those before it that went sideways. You want emotion? Feelings? Anxiety? Try fulfilling dreams. And expectations.

The fascination I (once) had with perfection has lately become an interest in elegance. Defining it. Channeling it. Embracing it. I think about how to bring back the elegance because I don’t feel enough of it around in daily life.

In one tsunami of a zeitgeist change, different (and better, and more efficient, and cheaper…) ways of doing the same thing replaced what was. Bicycle frames were once made. Now, like almost everything else, they’re manufactured. The future happened.

I wanted to deconstruct all of it so that only the logo was applied, and have no artsy devices cluttering it up. These here are some renderings, most variations on the same two or three themes. I couldn’t get to where I wanted, but eventually got close by Y2K. Little by little. One element removed at a time.

To this day, there are those who think you need a fitting, have to spend hours in front of a fitter while you’re sweating on a stationary bicycle in some fit studio, and do it all while listening to Olivia Newton John through the earbuds.
 I listen to other things.

All of it revolves around elegance. You want the lugs thinned a bit. Eliminate high and low spots. Make sure the flow is complete from top to bottom from side to side from front to back and that the same intention spreads to each lug so the job is the sum rather than the parts.

The SHOP

A mix of Worth Avenue and Jermyn Street. Definitely not Amazon.com.

Frame Building Kits

One stop shopping for PegoRichie bundled with RS designed castings.

Frame Building Materials

Richie-Issimo, Newvex, Piccolo Gioielli, Nuovo Richie, René Singer. Sax Max.

Sport

Wisdom comes from many licenses, pinned numbers, and final kilometers.