I chatted with Colin this afternoon, and a couple of things came up that might be of interest to the list. In a posting I made a few weeks ago, I mentioned that Colin's son, Ian, was a frame builder, and that his bikes were badged as "Colian". It turns out that Ian never built frames. He worked in his father's shop in Tempe for a time, but he did prep work and file work. The "Colian" marque was simply a nod to that somewhat short partnership between father and son.
As to the matter of decals for Colin's early bikes, Colin's position is that he built a certain batch of bikes with a specific style of decal, and when he finished building that batch, however large or small the batch was, that those decals died with the batch. The next batch (Colin's term) got a new decal. He has no interest in resurrecting old decal sets. He is very firm on this matter. Those early bikes have their own place in the world, and that's the way he wants it. Colin made these bikes. He designed the decals. The whole deal belongs to Colin. Could someone replicate the decals? Probably. Of all the bikes that Colin ever made, I think he sold or gave away just about every one of them. They don't belong to him anymore.....or do they?
Pat Moffat Tempe, AZ, Where I don't even know how to be Politically Correct..but I know a whole lot about being Culturally Correct.