Great vid of when Americans made bikes

[spinman]

Was surfing the Chopperdomes website and caught this.

what a great vid of when Americans made stuff. i bet they showed this to kids in grammer school. Then again, maybe not, after seeing the last part with that commercial :mrgreen:

and check out how they striped fenders back then. Von Dutch don't have jack on those ladies.

Spin



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPLRF5F5SZY

 

[Bodge Deep]

Wow, superb film
Cool find thanks for sharing

 

[sensor]

thanks for posting that(really like the stag commercial at the end as well :mrgreen: )

 

[American Vintage Bicycle Supply]

wow great video...

And DANG those ladys can pinstripe :!:
man i would give my arm and leg to workin a factory like that back in the day...

 

[murraymadman]

those woman pin striping make me sick!! :x i have trouble make a straight line with fine line tape!!! :?

 

[Social Reject]

Those pinstriping ladies were something. I liked that "jig" they used to roll the fenders under the brush.

That was a cool vid. I suppose it wasn't all apple pie though...I couldn't help but notice that they did chroming in house. I bet nobody back then thought anything at all about the fumes coming off of that stuff. They probably dumped the waste in the river. :? I also noticed that one guy painting the frames without a respirator.... Times sure have changed haven't they?

....of course the manufacturing has left the country too.

 

[Galtbacken]

Great video, thanks for posting!
Those ladies sure knew how to paint stripes!! I saw a resent documentary on BMW motorbikes not too long ago, and they still got ladies painting the stipes like that in their factory...it actually looked like the exact same ladies!