I bought/bartered that actual frame away from Mike in the mid-nineties. It served me well for a year or so (including the first Singlespeed Worlds in 1995...) but then an encounter with a ditch steepened the head angle to road bike levels (didn't break though!) and it was later given a straight downtube by a local UK framebuilder and it's probably still riding around somewhere...
I did miss out on Mike's garage-sale Merlin Newsboy Titanium though. That really was the one that got away...
Nov. 18, 2021, 3:52 p.m. - Chipps
I bought/bartered that actual frame away from Mike in the mid-nineties. It served me well for a year or so (including the first Singlespeed Worlds in 1995...) but then an encounter with a ditch steepened the head angle to road bike levels (didn't break though!) and it was later given a straight downtube by a local UK framebuilder and it's probably still riding around somewhere... I did miss out on Mike's garage-sale Merlin Newsboy Titanium though. That really was the one that got away...