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.
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. • Bill, it’s a honor to build you this frame and thank you for everything you have done for OUR sport!
WILD BILL...yeah he does and I known that cat for a long longtime and he is rough on things!
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.
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.