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The Cycle Shop



I frequent a blog called The Vintagent. Essentially, it covers vintage motorcycles from an intelligent podium founded mostly on experience. Recently, I was browsing the back logs and came upon this little shop located in the Bay Area. Such brick warehouses are very rare in the area due to earthquakes, but somehow this one has survived since the turn of the century.

Sure, the building has been modernized a bit for safey (note the red tie bars dotting the front and sides of the building), but there is no denying the soul that remains. The fir floors are soaked with oil, the walls are beautifully flawed, and even the owner’s tools seem to fit the mold casted so long ago.

I love spaces like this…






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scottybaccus

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Beautiful. Nice wagon out front, too.

I have an internal conflict. Partr of me really wants to find an old downtown industrial space and make a live in workshop, but the other part of me loathes the city... I'll probably have to resort to saving a structure like this in some old Texas farm town that has dried up and blown away, leaving only brick skeletons along main street.

(Taylor or Hutto would have done nicely, but someone beat me to it. Now they all cost six figures!) :(
 
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NRChopshop

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Awesome. Thats the space where Max Schaff and Jason Phares turn out some sick *** bikes
 

Tman

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Black Hills of South Dakota
Beautiful. Nice wagon out front, too.

I have an internal conflict. Partr of me really wants to find an old downtown industrial space and make a live in workshop, but the other part of me loathes the city... I'll probably have to resort to saving a structure like this in some old Texas farm town that has dried up and blown away, leaving only brick skeletons along main street.

(Taylor or Hutto would have done nicely, but someone beat me to it. Now they all cost six figures!) :(

I have done both and the Country wins out for me. Sure I miss living next to downtown at times (walking to the pub) but I love my shop space out of town.

Cool entry Ryan, I dig that little shop!
 
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