{"id":492,"date":"2011-09-13T15:16:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T20:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sevencycles.com\/blog\/?p=492"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:33:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:33:38","slug":"family-tree-of-frame-building-in-new-england-red-kite-prayer-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sevencycles.com\/7\/family-tree-of-frame-building-in-new-england-red-kite-prayer-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Tree of Framebuilding in New England: Red Kite Prayer Addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Patrick Brady wrote a brief history of\u00a0 New England bicycle manufacturing in the latest issue of Peloton Magazine, \u201cNew England Genesis<\/a>\u201d, and Seven was lucky enough to be included in it.\u00a0 In his (now defunct) blog, Red Kite Prayer, Patrick elaborates on the interconnectedness of the region\u2019s bike building companies, and created a family tree to illustrate some of the relationships.<\/p>\n

We are honored to be a part of this thriving and expanding community, and we wanted to clarify a few aspects of Patrick\u2019s illustration that might be confusing to readers.\u00a0 Here is a list of framebuilders and bike-building industry people of which we\u2019re aware that started businesses after working with local – primarily Massachusetts – framebuilders.\u00a0 For example, King Cage is not a framebuilder, but Ron worked at Fat City Cycles so we included him on this list.<\/p>\n

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A Long History of Photo-Taking<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Each company mentioned is a framebuilder, unless otherwise indicated:<\/p>\n

Updated\u00a03 June 2015<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Seven Cycles<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In addition to Red Kite Prayer’s list, here are some companies started by Seven Cycles employees and alumnae, and clarification regarding some of the companies relationships to Seven:<\/p>\n