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Originally Posted by happycampyer
To me, “end of an era” smacks of dead, and they’re not dead yet. At some point Peter Weigle will retire if he hasn’t already, but Brian Chapman (and Jan Heine/René Hearse) has clearly picked up the torch (no pun intended). And Serotta and IF live on, if only through their progeny.
The 23mm-tired race bike era may have ended, but that has ended for pretty much everybody, not just builders in the northeast. The spirit of those companies lives on, and many of them are at the forefront of design and innovation.
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Agree.
I like the image of Peter Weigle passing the baton to Brian Chapman. In the Buddhist tradition there are lineage masters. There are some parallels in custom bike design and construction. When I look at my Nagasawa I recall that he went to Italy to work under Pogliaghi and DeRosa for several years before returning to Japan. And we know some of the early revivalists of the art in the US went to England to do the same.
The goal of the master is that the student surpasses the master.