Silk Hope_McLean Gallery

Silk Hope ~ McLean Photo Gallery
Updated 2.12.2016

#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.)

Early Silk Hope tandem
(photos taken in Saxahapaw, NC, at original workshop.)

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 #

Richard Lawrence'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