"Virtual Shop Tour"
Inspiration for the the following announcement can be traced to a combination of stress, access to cheap wine, and a bleak view of the world. You can thank Tonic Fab for lacking even the slightest hint of discretion with regard to what it publishes.
Unfortunatley, you have only yourselves to blame for reading it.
We are really proud of the group of people who have decided to ride a Tonic Fab. There's a small group of people who we've helped out with bikes because they've insprired us as both riders and individuals. The newest member of our little posse is Guy Marsh. We are stoked to have Guy riding our bike, and I can't wait to heal up so I can go ride with him. If you've been to any of the recent Softies Jams, you've witnessed him in action. Speaking of action, check out these photos (1, 2) of Guy on his freshly built Fall Guy. Looks pretty comfy on his new rig...
In other news, Pennsylvanain trail boss, Chad Knavel is racing pro-dual slalom on his geared Fall Guy. He also won his class in down hill race. Congrats.
You are obviously computer literate enough to be reading this. How about using your expensive computer for a cheap laugh? These clips reminds of a certain collection of G.I. Joe public service announcements that kept me laughing for who knows how long...Get ready to laugh. And laugh some more. And some more.
Now for the shop tour. It's a cramped garage, but we've slowly outfitted in to do our bidding.
Here's a few yokes after receiving the end cuts. Before being installed into a Fall Guy they still require pocketing for weight savings, edge radiusing, and finally bending. We accomplish all of these operations ourselves. We consider this part essential to the Fall Guy. It's what enables the Fall Guy to have such short chainstays and clearance for large tires. As a finished part, it's gorgous, but unfortunately extremely time consuming to produce. Neither cheap, or easy. In fact, it's cheaper to buy a painted, cro-moly frame out of Taiwan than it is to outsource this part locally.
Tonic Fab's alignment table. Our stickers suck, our website is slow to change...at least the frames are straight. Pick your battles I guess...
Some Fall Guy's in process. The building blocks of our global empire. I think it's OK to announce we'll be buying Trek soon. Expect to see Bontrager frames in '07.
Tonic Fab's tooling department.
"Very im-press-ive Mr.Carter..." This is our Forming department.
Fall Guys: Still available and taking deposits. Commit to riding a weird bike, choose a color, throw us some money, and away you go...
L
Unfortunatley, you have only yourselves to blame for reading it.
We are really proud of the group of people who have decided to ride a Tonic Fab. There's a small group of people who we've helped out with bikes because they've insprired us as both riders and individuals. The newest member of our little posse is Guy Marsh. We are stoked to have Guy riding our bike, and I can't wait to heal up so I can go ride with him. If you've been to any of the recent Softies Jams, you've witnessed him in action. Speaking of action, check out these photos (1, 2) of Guy on his freshly built Fall Guy. Looks pretty comfy on his new rig...
In other news, Pennsylvanain trail boss, Chad Knavel is racing pro-dual slalom on his geared Fall Guy. He also won his class in down hill race. Congrats.
You are obviously computer literate enough to be reading this. How about using your expensive computer for a cheap laugh? These clips reminds of a certain collection of G.I. Joe public service announcements that kept me laughing for who knows how long...Get ready to laugh. And laugh some more. And some more.
Now for the shop tour. It's a cramped garage, but we've slowly outfitted in to do our bidding.
Here's a few yokes after receiving the end cuts. Before being installed into a Fall Guy they still require pocketing for weight savings, edge radiusing, and finally bending. We accomplish all of these operations ourselves. We consider this part essential to the Fall Guy. It's what enables the Fall Guy to have such short chainstays and clearance for large tires. As a finished part, it's gorgous, but unfortunately extremely time consuming to produce. Neither cheap, or easy. In fact, it's cheaper to buy a painted, cro-moly frame out of Taiwan than it is to outsource this part locally.
Tonic Fab's alignment table. Our stickers suck, our website is slow to change...at least the frames are straight. Pick your battles I guess...
Some Fall Guy's in process. The building blocks of our global empire. I think it's OK to announce we'll be buying Trek soon. Expect to see Bontrager frames in '07.
Tonic Fab's tooling department.
"Very im-press-ive Mr.Carter..." This is our Forming department.
Fall Guys: Still available and taking deposits. Commit to riding a weird bike, choose a color, throw us some money, and away you go...
L
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