Last fall I went to see a friend of mine who used to build frames and asked him if he would get his torches out of retirement and build me a bike.

We have talked off and on and he seems to have decided to build some more bikes, well it seems he has decided to get back into the bike biz in a larger fashion than I expected. He sent me an email this morning with these pictures of his first one out.

He sent me these pictures this morning ( and I am posting them here without telling him) and tells me that without pedals and with steel cogs this is 14 lbs 9 ozs. I told that although it is very nice it would certainly qualify as Beautiful if only it were Molteni Orange!!

All kidding aside, I do actually think that it is pretty darn nice looking bike for what is a flat out race bike. He is planning to do custom geometries and offer a mix of components from Advanced Carbon, Dedacciai, Reynolds, Mavic and Campy.

Let me know what you think of an early bike from a guy that has built quite a few, in years past.

With a color scheme that beautiful, I think the bike would look better w/o the carbon rear end. I guess he could paint the carbon. Everybody does carbon rear ends, but not everybody has paint that nice.

Subdued spiderman team rig. Very drool worthy.

Randy was always known for his paint jobs, many of them one off customised.

Some truly stunning creations over the years.

I really like the paint scheme. I've been planning to do a custom for some time with similar paint, as a sort of emulation of the Shell Ford GTs that raced at LeMans in the 1960s. You nailed it. If I ever see you on the road, we're going to trade for whatever I am riding at the moment. :D

http://www.ferrarihaven.com/65%20Ford%20GT40%20MKI%20Gulf%20RF.JPG

Sweet.

terry b,

You beat me to the punch with that picture. That's exactly what I thought of when seeing this beauty of a bike.

OK, I got some details from Randy last night in response to an email. Seems this is moving faster than he thought and he has not got a web-site put together yet, hopefully in a month or so. If anyone should want details to contact him PM me.

Randy is doing the paint himself, one by one. Always was good at it. I bought my first "good" bike from him back in about 1978 or 1979, a Bianchi. loved it for years.

Now, having posted some pictures of Randy's bike I want some help from you guys.

I am going to ask him to do something different for me, since the Le Mans idea seems to be taken.

I was thinking Red and White. Faema Colours, Canadian Flag Colours. I was sort of thinking a Starfighter type of theme with the Canadian flag melted into it - if that makes sense.

Anyone got any good thoughts??

Thoughts, Please? I'm not a designer and I want to have some thoughts formulated a bit before I turn him loose.