Brian Baylis  Fixed Gear Track Bike - Size 51cm C-CTop Tube, Original  Paint

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Brian Baylis Fixed Gear Track Bike - Size 51cm C-CTop Tube, Original Paint.
This bike was made for Brian's wife Terri and was found in its original shipping box packed away 21 years ago!
It has incredible bright neon yellow paint with a very unusual purple swirl paint on the head and seat tube and lugs.
Lugs outlined in gold.
Campy brakes and crankset and the custom painted yellow pedals  ( a Baylis trademark) and matching pump.
Excellent condition paint throughout-like new!  And its all original with decals complete and intact.
Another Baylis masterpiece.
Detailed pictures can be provided upon request.
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Two boxed handmade R Brian Baylis bikes for sale
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ALEX BOWDEN
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Two boxed handmade R Brian Baylis bikes for sale
Bikes made for Baylis’s ex-wife have been languishing in a garage in North-West England
You may or may not have heard of US frame-builder R Brian Baylis. If you know of his work, you might be interested to hear that two of his bikes are for sale, having been lying boxed in a garage in North-West England for the last few years.
Baylis started
his bike-building career
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at the Masi factory in Carlsbad, California, in 1973 before launching Wizard Bicycles with his colleague Mike Howard in 1974.
In 1976, the two men returned to Masi to work as foremen, but by 1977 Baylis had started building and painting frames under his own name.
“I make a bike that pleases my eye and satisfies my soul,” he once wrote. “Even though my extra effort is not always rewarded monetarily, my ‘payment’ for this is self-satisfaction.”
Giving some sense of how Baylis approached his work, he said: “Builders who refuse to put in the effort, much of which involves lots of time, without financial considerations, are simply not driven as craftsmen, in the purest sense. These people are in the ‘business’ of framebuilding.”
When Baylis died of pneumonia in 2016, former frame-maker Dave Moulton, who had worked alongside him,
wrote on his blog
(link is external)
: “He seemed to set some standard beyond even his own capabilities and strove towards that, until he thought he had reached it. Never caring for how long it was taking him to achieve this level of workmanship.”
He said Baylis had once been asked how he knew when a bike was finished. “It is never finished,” he replied. “They just come and take it away from me.”
So how did two R Brian Baylis bikes – one marked ‘track bike’ and the other ‘fixed gear’ – find their way to the UK?