 the meyer ->The second frame to emerge from my own handiwork, and the inaugural Wildebeest frameset, this bike is owned and ridden by my brother Michael, a winemaker in Napa, California. He had not ridden, or even owned, a bicycle since his high school years, mainly because he could never find comfort on anything offered back in the day (and he knew about the stuff back in the day- before his gearhead tendencies steered him toward internal combustion, he was a bike wrench [long before the head Wildebeest ever followed suit], building mostly unfortunate imported armatures with names like Cinelli, Basso, Colnago, you get the drift).Michael had long stated that if I began building, he wanted a frame, raw and still showing the marks of the torch and the file, to hang on a wall; as Wildebeest became a reality, though, he decided that he needed to give riding another try, and commissioned a complete bike. I dubbed the bicycle the Meyer due to the final color being spot on the same as that of a Meyer lemon- and ironically enough, Mr. M had a Meyer lemon tree growing right outside his front door in Napa. |
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