2012 Cirque du Cyclisme Vintage Bike Show

The Sunday show under the big top:

 Out in the trenches fighting for bargains:

 

The "Keeper of the Flame" builders:

The KOF (keepers of the flame) builders

left to right
first row:
Brian Chapman, Jeff Buchanan, Jamie Swan,  Johnny Coast, Simon Firth of Hanford Cycles, Peter Weigle

Second row:
Dale Brown, Isis Schiffer of Bilenky, Tom ? of Bilenky, Stephen Bilenky?, Hubert d'Autremont, Chris Bishop

Last Row:
Herbie Helm, Paul LeMaire (Newport, R. I.), Dave Wages (Ellis), Mark DiNucci, Mike Salvatore of Sketchy and Seven Cycles

2012 Cirque Du Cyclisme Vintage Bicycle Event

More names and faces:

Mark DiNucci made a great presentation on his evolution in becoming a frame builder and the influences that led him to where he is today.

http://www.dinuccicycles.com/DINUCCI-CYCLES

Eddie Albert did a presentation on the history of New York builders. Much of the information will be in his new book. Look for it to be released next spring.

A Pierce and Dick Power from Eddie Albert's collection.

Larry Peaslee with his Bob Jackson Audax.

 Johnny Coast with his classic randonee.
http://www.johnnycoast.com/

Custom stem and decaleur by Johnny Coast.

Bill Hale with his 1920's Bastide.

Chris Bishop
http://bishopbikes.com/frames

The seat cluster on one of Bishop's bikes.

And the stem on the same bike.

A polished stainless and rose "Ellis" by
Dave Wages from Wisconsin.
http://elliscycles.com/
http://blog.elliscycles.com/
This bike, owned by MJ,  tied for best of show!
Congratulations~

Details of the Ellis

A robin's egg blue Weigle owned by David Nagle.

Owen Wrigley and his bike made by distant relative Hilton Wrigley.

Builder Jeff Buchanan and his elegant randonee in gold and white.
jeffbuchanan@hotmail.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/j_d_buchanan_bicycles/

Builder Brian Chapman and his lucky customer Brian Bilich with his new mocha rando with custom matching racks.
Contact Brian at brian@chapmancycles.com

Builder Hubert d"Autremont with one of his frames:

Details of Hubert's frame

Contributing photographer, Barbara Kelly, at Cirque Live, and her
Bob Jackson Special Tourist.

Your "reporter" and his Bob Jackson Legend.

Ron Gurth with his Rambouillet.

My sincere apologies to all that I missed. It was difficult to identify folks. I did my best to snoop on conversations to figure out who was who and who belonged to what bikes but I know I missed a lot of people I would like to have met.

A shout to Mike and Joy Flournoy, thanks for the ride Mike. Thanks  to Marty Walsh for the restaurant suggestions! 

I have already found a couple omissions. I forgot to get a shot of Harvey Sachs with his cool 1938 Paramount. I also did not figure out who Karen Rawls was until she started to pull the tags off her bikes at the end of the day!
Nice Assenmacher, Karen.

2012 Cirque Names to Faces

For all those who have never been to a Cirque before, like me, here are some names and faces that might make CR messages more interesting!

Dale Brown the listmeister with one of his wonderful creations:
http://www.cyclesdeoro.com/

 

A poor picture, but... "Master of Ceremonies" and CCO (Chief Cirque Organizer) Wayne Bingham with his DiNucci/Merz (http://www.dinuccicycles.com/). Thanks for a great event!

Dan Artley with his Chris Bishop:

Ed Estoy with his Bruce Gordon:

Peter Weigle and Chip Duckett with Chip's bike:
http://www.classicrendezvous.com/USA/weigle_jp.htm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/49353569@N00/sets/

"Hetchins Pete" with, what else, a Hetchins!

Rich Pinder with his Romic:

Rich McCarthy with his Paramount:

Isis Schiffer with some of her work at Bilenky:
http://www.bilenky.com/Home.html

Herbie Helm with one of his creations:
http://www.helmcycles.com/