Silk Hope_McLean Gallery

Silk Hope ~ McLean Photo Gallery
Updated 2.12.2016

SILK HOPE #02055

Dan Borden's very early Silk Hope with an odd serial number #402 9081

Web master's first Silk Hope road frame, #17105

Silk Hope frame circa 1975

Mike Schmidt's Silk Hope #18016
(this frame has been refinished; note atypical braze-ons for it's age and addition
of McLean transfers, something not uncommon for Silk Hope owners to do.)

Silk Hope tandem #23047

Sadiq Gill's Silk Hope #18066
click for 24 images

Web master's Silk Hope touring bike #19087

Thomas Adams' touring #12097
click for 22 images

Ken Toda's Silk Hope #21038

Ken Wallace's McLean

Mike Dayton's Silk Hope #28048

Scott Swimmer's Silk Hope touring 1979
click for 7 photos

McLean tandem built for Mr. & Mrs. Pat Patterson
(this tandem currently resides in the NC Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC)

"This was my only bike since about '79 when I had the bike built for me by McLean. It is a racing frame and it was an adventure seeing McLean's shop, talking with him about what I was looking for in a bike, being measured and ultimately picking the frame up." "I'd gotten to know McLean when he was working at the Clean Machine in Chapel Hill in the early 70's when I was first getting interested in bikes and just hanging out watching McLean work in the back of the shop assembling and fixing bikes." "I was a young aspiring racer and the Clean Machine had the greatest bikes in the area. When he was there, he was always a quiet but friendly presence in the shop with a sharp and dry wit, an unusual and distinctive voice and a sly smile. When I got my first job as an architect/intern, the McLean was my first major purchase." Roman Stankus, March 2004