Finishing Touch
I rode a while and pondered. I didn't know what it was.......But it was missing. At a donut shop, I looked through the glass at the bike as I stirred my coffee. Since I first fabricated it, I never really liked the brass reflector support on the scruffy old Armstrong. I had done the same thing on the Raleigh One Speed. It was appropriate there, but on the Armstrong, it was repetitious. Then I looked into my coffee.......And I found my solution.
The silver spoon is a Chantilly design, in keeping with the French Super Champion rear wheel and Norex saddle I suppose. I like the ornate Rococo filigree as a tension of opposites with the weathered velocipede itself.
Labels: Bicycle Building, Bicycles in my Stable, Bicycling
6 Comments:
Nice! It looks like a flower.
stop sign!
Great idea!
Spooooooooon!!!
That's a subtle bit of goodness.
VERY COOL finishing touch. Well done Xavier.
Your bikes are truly work of art - beautiful in their own right.
Steve
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