Ellipsis

New project from Ellipsis, in Russia. Website: http://www.ellipsis-workshop.ru

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Bianchi

Bianchi "Proto". Click here to see other Bianchi Max bikes within this blog.

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Vitali

Made in Italy. Anyone have more information about the framebuilder?

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Rychtarski

www.rychtarski.com

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Kalkhoff

Kalkhoff, made in Germany. This mixte is made in MAX OR. "Trekking" model.

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De Rosa

 

According to the owner, De Rosa have confirmed that the frame is 1987 and 'very rare'.

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Ampello

Thanks to a reader for a photo of his Ampello. This 65cm frame has both the seat tube and head tube extended. Believed to be made in Belgium. If you have additional information about Ampello send me an email at address below.

addendum, November 30th, 2013: this brand may be associated with the Fietsen AMPE bike shop in Belgium.

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Black Cat

Read the details of this Aptos, California, custom made Black Cat here.

The frame does not to use the entire Max tubeset; bi-axialy ovalized down and top tubes,
chain stays, fork blades, and fork crown were used.  The re-released Max tubeset was used.  Frame built by Todd Ingermanson of Black Cat Bicycles.

Black Cat Bicycles web: www.blackcatbicycles.com

Video of Todd Ingermanson :

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Rourke

This frame was custom built in 1999 by English maker Brian Rourke from Columbus MAX for Chris Pyatt, a former National Champion. It was raced in World Masters Championship Pursuit and 1km TT events until 2002. In 2004 it was raced at the Championships again, being ridden by Adam Kenway in the Junior Pursuit and in 2007 it was ridden by Andrew Magnier, also in the Junior Pursuit.



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van Tuyl

van Tuyl "MAX" owned by reader Valentijn who also pointed me to this information about van Tuyl:

"Gijs van Tuyl is a bit a weird guy. Used to be quite a big race bike dealer in Zaltbommel, but went bankrupt for maybe 100 times. He was also always doing races, mainly in lower categories. Had bikes, frames and components produced with his own label. Somehow he wasn't able to invest time and money in the right business and screw up many times. For many years, the brand name was "Van Tuyl". It was pretty famous in NL and good riders like Richard Groenendaal and Marianne Vos rode his bikes. But a couple of years ago, business went wrong again and his business partner/investor kicked Gijs out. Although Gijs van Tuyl is not in that company anymore, the bikes are still labeled as Van Tuyl. See www.vantuyl.nl. Right now, Gijs is still working in the bike branch, running a company with his private bike label "Apex" (http://www.apex-bikes.nl), Quasar wheels and components and a bike shop 53-11: http://www.cc5311.nl.

Some frames (or many?) were built by Italian frame builder Andrea Pesenti or at least in his company. But Gijs also experimented with aluminium frames and even with Titanium frames from Russia."

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Tommasini

Tommasini "Velocista", 1993.

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Caloi

Reader Jan sends in photos of his original Caloi Mx Leader from team Lotto Caloi Vetta Belgacom of 1993.

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Rossignoli

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Donhou

100 mph "speed bike" built from opposed oval Columbus Max tubing for stiffness.  More details here. This blog is dedicated to all things related to Columbus MAX, MXL and MINIMAX. If you have a contribution please email me at veronaman@gmail.com. All the brands listed can be found along the right margin.

Lighthouse

Note: Lighthouse is the brand of framebuilder Tim Neenan who was also the first product designer at Specialized. He was responsible for the Sequoia, the Allez, the Expedition and the Stumpjumper (first production mountain bike). Neenan is still building custom frames such as this MAX mountain bike. Other LIghthouse frames previously posted are here. More information at www.lighthousecycles.com.

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Virginia

Minimax frame by Virginia of Modena; 1990s.

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