In the deluge of information from the globally consequential to the utterly inane, a bit of news that may have escaped some folks daily feed was that Budd Bike Works intends to take a hiatus and close it’s doors. It’s hard to know where that kind of line is drawn though, when the door to your business is turned with the same key as your home, so while divesting myself from the pursuit of new orders until I can arrive at a more tenable pricing structure and production schedule, I still have to make good on the designs I took deposits for delivery of before having resolved to move on. I must have been counting on the Mayan prophecy intervening and saving me from having to construct it when I proposed elevated chain stays for this belt drive do all bike currently in the works. There is so much extra effort hidden in the execution of something you’ve never tried before, it makes it difficult to put an appropriate price on the compensation for your labor with out it coming off as absurd until it is compared to what is paid for art done for arts sake, this bike is no shark in formaldahyde, but it will definitely be unique. Can’t wait to get it wrapped up and start on the next one off in the cue. Thanks go out to the Tiny Russian for the photos.
