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Candi Murray/Oregon Bicycle Racing Assn

2003-04-22

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Velocraft Grand Opening Reception on Thursday May 15th

-----Original Message-----

From: David Nute [mailto:david-@mindspring.com]

Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 2:44 PM

To: cmur-@obra.org; mmur-@obra.org

Subject: Velocraft Grand Opening!-Pls. Forward

Velocraft Grand Opening Reception on Thursday May 15th!

Please Join us from 6:30- 9:00

Come and celebrate our new location in

Portland at 2034 Sandy Boulevard.

Summer Hours:

M-F 9:30 am - 7:30 pm

Weekends 8:00am - 5:00pm

Velocraft features the world?s best craft built and custom bikes for racing

and road bike technology nuts. The bicycle industry is dominated by a few

large manufacturers resulting in limited choices and slow innovation.

Discerning riders want more-now you have another option!

Velocraft brings years of experience in cycling and industrial engineering

to bear. We have carefully evaluated over 100 of the world?s craft builders

and selected the highest quality builders and strongest innovators for our

team:

Material Builder

Location

Aluminum Cycles Devinci

Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada

Carbon Fiber Aegis Bicycles Boothbay

Harbor and Van Buren, Maine, USA

Steel Independent Fabrication Somerville,

MA, USA

Boron Carbide Griffen Bicycles Lompac, CA,

USA

Titanium Dean Bicycles Boulder,

CO, USA

Scandium Olympus Bicycles Heathrow, FL,

USA and AUS

Craft Builder Criteria:

****Design all frames in-house****Produce at least 80% of the content of

each frame in their own, local facility

 ****Focus on engineering and production in one material

type****Customize over 20% of frames built

 ****Production averages 1,000 frames or less annually.

At Velocraft, you?ll test ride all of the road and time trial frames made by

our builders. Then, you?ll build up a frame from our wide range of

components, choosing all the parts and pieces that are right for you and

your budget. You can choose from our stock of frames, or custom order and

select your own paint and other features- often and little or no additional

cost and usually delivered in 4 weeks or less.

Our craft builders have demonstrated revolutionary innovations in their

chosen material. Contrary to popular belief, most technical innovations in

cycling come from craft builders, not large manufacturers.

A case study: Aegis Bicycles of Van Buren Maine, invented the carbon fiber

monocoque in 1986 that Aegis later made under contract to Trek as the Model

5500. While they stopped making Trek bicycles in the early 1990?s, Aegis

has continued an unbelievable string of innovations- for example they have

trimmed ? of a pound from all their frames for each of the past 3 years,

while improving stiffness, performance and durability.

Each of our builders is the best at what they do, and it really shows in

their work-come by and change the way you ride.

Experience our unique frame material selection process, test ride some

awesome machines, and view the great custom features available from each of

our builders. You?ll step through our component selection process, which

takes away the research and guesswork. You?ll know instantly which sizes

and models belong on your new frame, and you?ll use our decision tools to

gage performance vs. cost in making perfect selections. You can even trade

in your old frame and reuse components if you like. Also, be sure to ask us

about our bike upgrade consultations- guaranteed to get you the biggest

performance improvement for the dollar.

Velocraft proudly features a complete line of components and accessories

from:

Look Easton Spinergy

Chris King

Shimano Thompson Mavic

Kane Creek

Campagnolo Millenium Deda

ITM

Zipp Rolf Prima Vittoria

Vredestein

Reynolds TrueTemper Profile Design

Cinelli

And many, many others?

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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left>-----Original Message----- From: David Nute

[mailto:david-@mindspring.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 2:44

PM To: cmur-@obra.org; mmur-@obra.org Subject: Velocraft

Grand Opening!-Pls. Forward </DIV>

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Velocraft

Grand Opening Reception on Thursday May 15th!

Please

Join us from 6:30-

9:00

Come and

celebrate our new location in

Portland at

2034 Sandy

Boulevard.

 

Summer Hours:



M-F

9:30 am - 7:30

pm

Weekends

8:00am -

5:00pm

 

Velocraft

features the world?s best craft built and custom bikes for racing and road bike

technology nuts. The bicycle industry is dominated by a few large

manufacturers resulting in limited choices and slow innovation. Discerning

riders want more-now you have another option! 

 

Velocraft brings years of

experience in cycling and industrial engineering to bear. We have

carefully evaluated over 100 of the world?s craft builders and selected the

highest quality builders and strongest innovators for our

team:

 

Material



Builder



Location



Aluminum

 Cycles

Devinci

Chicoutimi,

Quebec,

Canada



Carbon Fiber

 Aegis

Bicycles

Boothbay

Harbor and

Van Buren,

Maine,

USA



Steel

 Independent

Fabrication Somerville,

MA, USA

Boron Carbide

 Griffen

Bicycles

Lompac,

CA,

USA

Titanium

 Dean

Bicycles

 Boulder, CO,

USA

Scandium



Olympus

Bicycles



Heathrow,

FL,

USA and

AUS

 

Craft Builder

Criteria:

 ****Design all frames

in-house****Produce at least 80% of the content of each frame in their own,

local facility



****Focus on engineering and production in one material type****Customize over

20% of frames built



****Production averages 1,000 frames or less annually.

 

At

Velocraft, you?ll test ride all of the road and time trial frames made by our

builders. Then, you?ll build up a frame from our wide range of components,

choosing all the parts and pieces that are right for you and your budget.

You can choose from our stock of frames, or custom order and select your own

paint and other features- often and little or no additional cost and usually

delivered in 4 weeks or less.

 

Our craft builders have

demonstrated revolutionary innovations in their chosen material.

Contrary to popular belief, most technical innovations in cycling come

from craft builders, not large manufacturers. 





A case

study: Aegis Bicycles of Van Buren Maine, invented

the carbon fiber monocoque in 1986 that Aegis later made under contract to Trek

as the Model 5500. While they stopped making Trek bicycles in the early

1990?s, Aegis has continued an unbelievable string of innovations- for example

they have trimmed ? of a pound from all their frames for each of the past 3

years, while improving stiffness, performance and

durability. 

 

Each of our builders is the best at what they do,

and it really shows in their work-come by and change the way you

ride.

 

Experience our unique frame

material selection process, test ride some awesome machines, and view the great

custom features available from each of our builders. You?ll step through our

component selection process, which takes away the research and guesswork.

You?ll know instantly which sizes and models belong on your new frame, and

you?ll use our decision tools to gage performance vs. cost in making perfect

selections. You

can even trade in your old frame and reuse components if you like. Also,

be sure to ask us about our bike upgrade consultations- guaranteed to get you

the biggest performance improvement for the dollar.



 

Velocraft proudly features a

complete line of components and accessories from:

 

Look

Easton

Spinergy

Chris King

Shimano

Thompson

Mavic

Kane Creek

Campagnolo

Millenium

Deda

ITM

Zipp

Rolf

Prima Vittoria

Vredestein 

Reynolds

TrueTemper Profile

Design

Cinelli

 

And many, many

others?

 

 

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****Focus on engineering and production in one material =

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****Production averages 1,000 frames or less =

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all of the

road and time trial frames made by our builders. Then, you=92ll =

build up a

frame from our wide range of components, choosing all the parts and =

pieces that

are right for you and your budget. You can choose from our stock =

of

frames, or custom order and select your own paint and other features- =

often and

little or no additional cost and usually delivered in 4 weeks or =

less.<o:p></o:p>

 <o:p></o:p>

Our craft builders have demonstrated =

revolutionary

innovations in their chosen material. Contrary to popular =

belief,

most technical innovations in cycling come from craft builders, not =

large

manufacturers. <o:p></o:p>

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A case study: Aegis Bicycles of Van Buren =

<st1:State><st1:place>Maine</st1:pl=

ace></st1:State>, invented the carbon =

fiber

monocoque in 1986 that Aegis later made under contract to Trek as the =

Model

5500. While they stopped making Trek bicycles in the early =

1990=92s, Aegis

has continued an unbelievable string of innovations- for example they =

have

trimmed =BC of a pound from all their frames for each of the past 3 =

years, while

improving stiffness, performance and durability. =

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Each of our builders is the

best at what they do, and it really shows in their work-come by and =

change the

way you ride.<o:p></o:p>

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Experience our unique frame material selection =

process,

test ride some awesome machines, and view the great custom features =

available

from each of our builders. You=92ll step

through our component selection process, which takes away the research =

and

guesswork. You=92ll know instantly which sizes and models belong =

on your

new frame, and you=92ll use our decision tools to gage performance vs. =

cost in

making perfect selections. You can even trade in your old =

frame and

reuse components if you like. Also, be sure to ask us about our =

bike

upgrade consultations- guaranteed to get you the biggest performance

improvement for the dollar. <o:p></o:p>

 <o:p></o:p>

Velocraft proudly features a complete line of =

components

and accessories from:<o:p></o:p>

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Look &n=

bsp; &nb=

sp;

<st1:City><st1:place>Easton</st1:place></st1:City> &nbsp=

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Spinergy &nbsp=

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Chris King<o:p></o:p>

Shimano &nbsp=

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