Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Vanage!


I stole this photo from Moeller. It just rules too much. It's the inside of Alex Leech's 60's delivery van from around 91. Bike, frame rack, and Bell helmet. Dig it. According to Alex, he lived in this Van on Keith Treanor's driveway. It was also used to move frames around from the painters and chromers.

I'm thinkin' by the CS bridges that those are early Holmes' for you guys to drool over. 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey, thats my Van (and my Bell Helmet)! I lived in that Van for a few months in Kieth Treanors driveway. That photo was around March 91.

I have no idea how Moeller ran a bike company without any transport of his own. I guess things always just worked out, and me and my van filled those few months. Trips to the welders, paint shop and chromers. We even stole that frame rack from the welders and used it in Moellers Garage

Alex

Anonymous said...

I remember being in that van with Alex, Chris, Rob the Skater,and all those frames. We took that crazy van out to ride/skate the Nude Bowl. I don't know how we made it back.

Chris stuffed frames in any car he could find in those early days, I remember him putting 10 or more frames in a Karman Ghia, I think it belonged to Susie, Brook's girlfriend.

I also remember shipping international orders by putting bikes boxes on skateboards and pushing them to the shipping place a couple blocks away.