Even this photo is enough for Frank "The Welder" Wadelton, who has several years of attendance in the world of MTB will be remembered certainly an athlete who ran with a strange handlebar racing on the beautiful bike, well everyone knows the athlete, the legendary Tomac, the brand of bike already a problem arises, but it was a Yeti but you can guess who designed and welded these masterpieces is hardly known to most, but certainly not known to young people who have approached the wake of the freeride mountain biking.
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| Dal sito Mountain Bike Hall of Fame |
" Built frames for John Tomac, Juli Furtado, Lisa Muhic, Tinker Juarez, Brian Lopes, Miles Rockwell, Missy Giove, Sarah Ballentine, Don Mirah, Daren & Kurt Stockton, Davis Phinny, Greg Orovits, The Evian team, Leigh Donovan, Jimmy Deaton, Russ Worley, and others who escape my memory just now. I think I have built more different bikes by hand than most anyone (aluminum, steel, Ti, MMC, and frames for DH, DS, XC, trials, track, BMX, road and even a unicycle out of wood). "
But this would be a place without words, and then here are some pictures of his masterpieces.
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| Photo by Frank The Welder - from his Facebook page |
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| Pictures Adri.75 |
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| Pictures Adri.75 |
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Pictures Adri.75
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Now these masterpieces are available through Import FRO (quietly) in Italy, maybe not cheap but are made hand by the same hand that made the bike Tomac, Furtado's, Ballentine's and many others, so there is a sticker on a frame made in Taiwan or China in the assembly line and very marketing ....
The site FRO Import worth a visit and not only but also for Empire FTW, Slingshot and many other brands of little known but very high level, then it deserves its fantastic museum with pieces of course Yeti welded Frank ;-)...
like to thank Mr. MC at Eventhepopesmokesdope to CIT, to Alas and to all those who write in the section of the Vintage mtb-forum where there is talk of feeling the beauty of emotions that mtb can give you, the only section where feelings no challenge to have 10 mm more excursion or to get better value for money ....
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