— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
With the New York media elite recently discovering the bicycle, The New Yorker dispatched their Culture Desk's media team to Andrew Low's workshop here in the Mission to learn more about the frame process.
“It's a lot of work,” Andrew assures The New Yorker. “A lot of people think that all bike-building really involves is just welding and they're surprised to hear there's cutting. Like, 'oh, what does that take you five minutes to cut up a bunch of tubes?'”
No, it apparently takes much longer than that. So much longer than Andrew is only able to turn out 10 of his $1,000 frames a month (and there's a 9 month wait list for them).
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New Yorker tax: On June 15th, 2013, frames will start at $1,200.
Don’t diss the New Yorker. Its amazing. And someday you will give up on “The Californian’s” and return to your dullard Protestant back East roots and that magazine will be the only real culture you have.
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