Silk Hope_McLean Gallery

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Silk Hope~ McLean Photo Gallery
Updated 10.28.2008

#02055

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

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 umcommn for Silk Hope owners to do.)

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

Silk Hope solo frame...

Web master's Silk Hope touring #19087...

Ken Toda's elegant Silk Hope #21038

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

Scott Swimmer's Silk Hope touring
(click for 7 photos)

Mike Dayton's Silk Hope #28048

Billy Boden's McLean frame #10101
Photos courtesy Karen Rawls

Ken Wallace's' immaculate frame...

Roman Stankus' very sanitary Silk Hope

"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