clearing out the independent fabrication factory space on dirty old joy street in somerville was a hot and grimy week long process. we left the old racing jerseys up till the end, i guess to remind us that we were racing against our own deadline - june 31st at midnight.
benny and ramponi hustling to get another bike out the door before we closed up the shop.
meow!
these are three of the last frames to be painted and finished in somerville.
these guys are currently in boxes, waiting for me to start prepping them for paint work in newmarket, new hampshire. these bikes will have an interesting story, straddling both sides of our transition.
scrap metal, copper piping. i cut a lot of these down using a sawzall and bolt cutters.
extra tubes not going north, but south. a little present to our friend thomas at horse cycles in brooklyn, new york.
tearing down the old paint booth with the help of our friends brian and chris from circle a cycles down in providence, rhode island. it was probably the gnarliest part of breaking down the shop, and took two days.
chris from circle a, looking like a coal miner as the last wall of the booth comes down.
our blasters and media collector up on the riggers flatbed.
shop bikes in chris rowe's big ass pickup truck.
all said and done, we had two flatbed trucks packed with machinery, two 24 foot moving vans, a ford fan, a volkswagen euro van, chris' pickup truck, plus two huge dumpsters filled with scrap and crap.
here's a look inside what is no longer independent fabrication of somerville, but a new home for somebody else to chase their dreams in.
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