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| Jim Merz built roughly 400 bike frames and bikes from 1973 > 1982 from Portland, Oregon, before moving to work for [[special:start|Mike Sinyard]] designing new Specialized bicycles. Jim worked for Specialized from 1983->1991, and again from 2003->2011. Jim make only a a few custom mountain bikes starting in 1980. Despite having a large influence on American bicycle building, he has not been inducted into the [[https://mmbhof.org/|Mt. Bike Hall of Fame]], probably because his focus has been on touring and racing road bicycles and that his mountain bike output was low. ((Jim has nominated for the original Mt Bike Hall of Fame in Crested Butte. Nomination: [[http://www.cbklunkers.com/page.cfm?pageid=7&categoryid=2&memberid=120|link]]))((Much info from Jim Merz' [[https://www.facebook.com/merzbicycles|Facebook]].)) The [[http://cbklunkers.com/pdf/Bicycling82.pdf|June 1982]] issue of [[https://www.bicycling.com/|Bicycling Magazine]] reviewed the state of mountain biking art in 1982 and reviewed bikes from: | Jim Merz built roughly 400 bike frames and bikes from 1973 > 1982 from Portland, Oregon, before moving to work for [[special:start|Mike Sinyard]] designing new Specialized bicycles. Jim worked for Specialized from 1983->1991, and again from 2003->2011. Jim made only a few custom mountain bikes starting in 1980. Despite having a large influence on American bicycle building, he has not been inducted into the [[https://mmbhof.org/|Mt. Bike Hall of Fame]], probably because his focus has been on touring and racing road bicycles and that his mountain bike output was low. ((Jim has nominated for the original Mt Bike Hall of Fame in Crested Butte. Nomination: [[http://www.cbklunkers.com/page.cfm?pageid=7&categoryid=2&memberid=120|link]]))((Much info from Jim Merz' [[https://www.facebook.com/merzbicycles|Facebook]].)) The [[http://cbklunkers.com/pdf/Bicycling82.pdf|June 1982]] issue of [[https://www.bicycling.com/|Bicycling Magazine]] surveyed the state of mountain biking art in 1982 and reviewed bikes from: |
| * [[ritchey:start|Ritchey]] | * [[ritchey:start|Ritchey]] |
| * [[lawwill:start|Koski]] | * [[lawwill:start|Koski]] |
| [[https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=163004250382479&set=a.163003740382530|facebook]] | [[https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=163004250382479&set=a.163003740382530|facebook]] |
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| Handmade fork crowns made from solid steel billet using a hacksaw and file. | Jim Merz hand made his fork crowns from solid steel billet using a hacksaw and file. |
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