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Title: Titanium Twin Top Tube Laird frame
Post by: out~riding on May 30, 2020, 11:45:27 AM
Quote from: Mike Laird
Ladies and gentlemen I have something special to show off today. The first ever TTTT(Titanium Twin Top Tube)-lairdframe. BMX pioneer Bill Nitschke the inventor of the Whopper (hop-whip) prospected about a TTTT-lairdframe 2 years ago at HELLTRACK down in Texas. It was an incredible honor for Bill to ask me to build him a frame. So Bill called me up 2 months ago and told me it was his 50th birthday coming up and he wanted to gift himself with the first ever TTTT-lairdframe. If Bill Nitschke wants me to build him a frame I’ve never built before I just have to figure it out and get it done.
Title: Re: Titanium Twin Top Tube Laird frame
Post by: out~riding on May 30, 2020, 11:46:19 AM
Quote from: Mike Laird
Now about the frame. It’s titanium and weighs 4lb. 2ozs. Bill told me he bends TTT all the time and I didn’t want that to happen on my frame. So the TTT wall thickness on here is .095”. The cable guide and cable stop and seat tube plates between the TT are hand cut. It took me 2-1/2 days to build this frame. This TTTT-lairdframe is probably the most challenging metal structure I’ve built to-date.
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 Bill, it’s a honor to build you this frame and thank you for everything you have done for OUR sport!
Title: Re: Titanium Twin Top Tube Laird frame
Post by: khe killah on May 30, 2020, 06:16:54 PM
Looks nice!! Love to see it when its fully built!

Title: Re: Titanium Twin Top Tube Laird frame
Post by: mal on May 31, 2020, 09:00:29 AM
weight?
Title: Re: Titanium Twin Top Tube Laird frame
Post by: metalbmxer on May 31, 2020, 12:12:57 PM
I seem To remember him saying 4 lbs 2 oz
Title: Re: Titanium Twin Top Tube Laird frame
Post by: mal on May 31, 2020, 02:38:55 PM
Really? I would have thought that it would be much lighter..!
My frame weights that much and its chromoly (Deco Jackpot)
So why go with titanium if there is no weight difference?
Title: Re: Titanium Twin Top Tube Laird frame
Post by: out~riding on June 01, 2020, 12:03:39 AM
It's over built because Nitschke breaks frames...
Title: Re: Titanium Twin Top Tube Laird frame
Post by: out~riding on June 03, 2020, 10:18:39 PM

WILD BILL...yeah he does and I known that cat for a long long
time and he is rough on things!

Did you see him pull the whooper back when he first did it?
Title: Re: Titanium Twin Top Tube Laird frame
Post by: eightyfivegt on June 05, 2020, 10:24:42 PM
FWIW, Bill told me that he rode that white 19” Subrosa Pandora frame for 11 years.  Maybe that one was “overbuilt”?  LOL
Title: Laird flatland frame
Post by: out~riding on April 09, 2022, 02:37:03 PM
Here's Laird's latest flatland frame:
Title: Re: Titanium Twin Top Tube Laird frame
Post by: out~riding on April 09, 2022, 02:38:04 PM
Quote from: mike_laird
This newest flatland lairdframe is suppose to be heading to the Russian Federation but do to UN sanctions nothing from the States can be mailed there right now. Crazy times we’re living in. Powdercoated TransRed.
Title: Re: Titanium Twin Top Tube Laird frame
Post by: Mambocowboy on April 09, 2022, 07:15:37 PM
https://www.instagram.com/p/CcBskYQO6kQ/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
How you like them apples?
Title: Re: Titanium Twin Top Tube Laird frame
Post by: out~riding on January 12, 2023, 01:04:24 AM
Quote from: mike_laird

What an absolute incredible honor it was to build this Ti-lairdframe and lairdfork. OK…. OK guys you’re gonna have to give me a minute to geek out here. There are times in your life when you have to pinch yourself and say “did that really just happen!?!” Receiving a message and then having a phone call with WOODY ITSON about building him a titanium frame and fork!!! Yep…. That happened to me! The flatland LEGEND with the world’s most bad-ass gold plated Hutch Trick Star now wants one of my creations. I couldn’t be more stoked…… AND honored! Man, I’m still buzzing about this. @woodyitson sent me his newest Trick Star so I’d get all the exact geo off it that he liked. But he wanted a shorter CS on his lairdframe. His Trick Star weighed 6lbs. and his TTTT-lairdframe and lairdfork weighed 4lb. 15ozs. together! This is the 3rd TTTT-lairdframe I’ve built now. #Ti-96.
Title: Re: Titanium Twin Top Tube Laird frame
Post by: out~riding on January 12, 2023, 01:04:57 AM
some more pics:
Title: Re: Titanium Twin Top Tube Laird frame
Post by: DaddyCool on January 12, 2023, 10:21:54 AM
Hello Mike, wow this really is so cool! I can fully understand how honored you feel... The frame looks good! Cool detail with that coaster lever plate thing... Props!
Title: Re: Titanium Twin Top Tube Laird frame
Post by: out~riding on January 12, 2023, 09:47:39 PM
Quote from: @woodyitson

I finally built myself a new bike, one last build before I hang it up for good.  I had always wanted a double top tube bike but never owned one and I wanted a lighter bike than the one I was currently on.  Both goals were achieved thanks to Mike Laird.  This Ti-Laird frame and fork are about half the weight of my old F&F.  Some of the components are hold overs from my old bike, mainly the wheels, stem, bars, and brakes. The crank set up is all new, much lighter than my olds ones, and went together super easy.  I want to thank Gabe Weed and Cheap Goods for helping me out with the new school parts I needed to finish up my new ride.  I had forgotten how your finger tips feel after a day of rebuilding a rear coaster brake hub, setting up an Oryg, and dealing with all the brake adjusting stuff in tight areas, not to mention your fingers smelling like grease for dinner afterwards. Everything went together super easy, I guess that is to be expected when you have a frame and fork built by a world class frame builder.  I took a quick ride around before I hooked up the brakes and could instantly notice the weight difference in regards to the handling. I also made a slight geometry change from my previous bike with some assistance from Mike and it’s much more responsive than my old bike.  This is the year I will turn 60, hopefully this new bike we be the change that inspires me to ride a little bit more than once a year.  Things lately have been a bit trying and sometimes life gives us challenges that we never asked for, I’m very lucky to have a very supportive wife and kids. Happy 2023 everyone.
Title: Re: Titanium Twin Top Tube Laird frame
Post by: metalbmxer on January 12, 2023, 09:56:55 PM
Nice! thanks for posting