Flyin' Bryan Philbrook Builds "Thom's Sawyer"

Thom's Sawyer Built By Bryan Of International Bicycle from BigBikesShow on Vimeo.

 As previously stated, I don't even like Rush, but setting this video of Bryan building "Thom's Sawyer" to "Tom Sawyer" was unavoidable. I didn't bite 21st Avenue Bikes "air compressor to the face" schtick, but I did develop my own using Bryan's beard as a prop. 

And please share the living hell out of this thing so I can get paid to make more.

Oh, and I spoke with Ultra Endure Guy, he'll be paying Big Bikes a visit Thursday or Friday. He also said something about a future project that may involve Chelada.

Gary Fisher Collection Sawyer: It's Light, It's Racist, And It Has A Split Dropout So You Can Clean Your Chain

 

My new bike is named after a Rush song…and I don't even like Rush. Alright, the Rush song is named after a book by Mark Twain, but who thinks of Twain before they think of Rush when they hear "Tom Sawyer?" It's sad. Sad like the fact that a half-assed blog about bikes and, and…who knows, shows up before its namesake in a Google search. But, nonetheless, I'm going to go with "Thom's Sawyer" as the name for the new, big, gray beast. It just fits. I walked into the shop on Friday, pulled the thing out of the box, and Erich Leas started singing "Tom Sawyer," and that was that. Boom! Bike named. I knew I was getting the bike for weeks…months even, but this connection had never occurred to me: a.) because I'm dimwitted and b.) because I don't think about myself in the third person, so it was "my Sawyer;" not "Thom's Sawyer." And ya, the H thing threw me. Rush's Tom Sawyer doesn't have a
silent H.