29 Sep 2009

In keeping with the fact that Thylacine Cycles is the most contactable, and has THE best Customer Service of any custom bike company, I’ve added ‘Ping!’ to my iPhone.

Ping! is essentially just like any other instant messager / SMS, except it’s just for iPhone and iPod Touch users, AND it’s free to download and use, AND it’s free Internationally. Multi-platform messaging programs for the iPhone are very buggy at the moment, so this is a good interim measure as well as a good way for us iPhone users to be exclusive and elitist. Plus reduce my SMS bill.

So if you have any questions about custom bike frames, or just want to hassle me - and you have an iPhone or iPod Touch - I can be reached anytime with the UserID - ‘thylacinecycles’.

Posted by warwick @ 10:51 pm

26 Sep 2009

Okay so yeah, it’s been a while since I posted anything here. To say I’ve been busy is an understatement. At any one time we have up to 4 builds going on, and recently we’ve been doing complete bikes which takes up a whole bunch of time and probably financially makes no sense, but it’s more rewarding seeing the looks on customers’ faces when they come over and see their new bike just sitting there waiting to be ridden off into the sunset. It’s pretty rewarding I gotta say.

So, aside from being super busy, I’m also super happy to show you some raw photos of our 2010 Arete. We’ve gone a bit old-school and slightly burlier (read: ‘Trailbikey’, not ‘Freeridey’), so there’s more gap now between it and the SL. The SL is the superlight XC race machine, and the Arete is the bike for the rest of us.

The Aretes are now welded by our new welder-type dude, Eric. Eric is what is technically referred to as ‘good’. Seriously good. If I made these photos B&W, you’d think that was a Titanium frame, but it’s not, it’s steel. I actually think we’re making two huge mistakes here: 1) Using welds this good on what is supposed to be our most affordable frame, and 2) Powdercoating it. Those welds will just vanish to the point I’ll I have print up a t-shirt saying “No, it’s not fillet brazed” just so I don’t have to continually repeat myself.

Anyway, luckily for me, this is actually my new frame, so this Summer is going to be a whole boatload of singletracking fun which I’m really looking forward to because I’ve largely been off the dirt for a couple of years now. I’ll post up some pix once it’s all powdercoated and decaled up etc..

Posted by warwick @ 12:59 am