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Known for his off-the-wall personality, Helfrich single-handedly built over 2500 bikes while working for Fat Chance Bikes. After his stint as a welder with Chance at Fat City Cycles, Helfrich founded Merlin Metalworks. Helfrich is considered the founder of the titanium bike industry being the first to design and build a titanium mountain bike.
Gary Helfrich was a mad bicycle scientist and his metallurgical concoctions brought us the birth of the modern titanium bicycle. There are people who break the mold and live lives that seem a bit too incredible to be true, folks who don't really care whether anybody else understands or approves.
Merlin Metalworks was founded in 1986 by Gwyn Jones, Gary Helfrich, and Mike Augspurger in Cambridge, Massachusetts. They were one of the first to manufacture bicycle frames constructed solely from titanium .
Scot and Gary Helfrich wrote this together with much of the info coming from Gary (who has been known on occasion to embellish), but for the most part verified by our contacts at Ancotech. It’s been reprinted in various places over the last 15 years.
Apr 22, 2013 · Merlin is largely credited with being the first company to manufacture Titanium mountain bikes. Gary Helfrich was one of the three founders of Merlin (along with Gwyn Jones and Mike Augspurger), so logically if he built this bike before starting Merlin it would be the first.
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