![]() Spent all the money that I made building up an Ibis Mojo with the Manitou fork with the carbon crown and 3cm of travel. ![]() That’s when I worked at Iowa Bike & Fitness and got super geeky into it. I had a Gary Fisher Paragon aluminum frame and the summers I moved back to Iowa to stay with my parents. In this phone interview, Ben discusses the initial journey into frame building, as well as his drive to accomplish the deeper level of personalization and material performance that compelled him to create his new approach to custom carbon frame fabrication…īEN: I grew up mountain biking in Aspen. Steel, in his mind, would never be able to give him the depth of control over the design and feel of the bike, and it would never allow him to make the contribution to the industry he wanted to make – not like carbon could. ![]() From the perspective of many who labor in metal, it was a polarizing move leaving many feeling like he was dismissing the material that they love.īut for Ben, this could not be further from the truth. Despite early recognition of his work in steel, Ben made a sudden move away from the material to carbon only a few years into forming his brand. He started Argonaut as a steel custom frame outfit, first with TIG welded frames, then brazed frames. Photo used with permission of Argonaut Cyclesīen Farver has an origin story in two parts.
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