Do most great frame builders do their best work early, like many scientists and artists, and then kind of muddle along skillfully but not reaching those same heights again? Or do most keep building better and better bikes? I'm not talking about the builder's skill level here. I suspect their skills keep getting better with practice until old age begins to interfere. I'm asking about the bikes themselves. Is a 1980 Weigle, like the one on EBAY today, just as good of a bike as a 2006 Weigle, or is a 2006 Weigle better? Same for a Bayliss? Or anyone else? Do gifted frame builders do a few masterpieces, the way so many other artists do, and then the rest of their output is merely exceptional? Or are there no masterpieces in bicycles? Just lots of exeptionally fine pieces of work?
I'm asking, because I haven't ridden custom frames by KOF builders from different time periods and so I can't compare. I'd like to hear the thoughts of both KOF builders and the thoughts of persons who have ridden older and newer bikes by the same KOF builders.
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