Gallery: Moots' Point: For Premium Bike Maker, It's Titanium or Bust
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*Moots moved into its new building on the outskirts of town in 2001. The building includes a showroom and apartments for visiting VIPs.*
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*Willy Keane works in the mitre shop, shaping tubes and joints.*  *A seat tube strut for an MX RXL mountain bike. Everything about the bikes is painstakingly crafted and gorgeous to behold.*
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*Notes are scribbled on the mitre machine as seat tube struts are cut.*
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*Machinist Evan Soard and his companion Baxter keep an eye on CNC operations. About 70 percent of the CNC work has been brought in house over the last five years.*
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*Titanium bikes are Wired. So too is the factory where they're built, as this scene shows.*  *Toys in the finishing shop.*
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*This Mooto X RSL frame is one of many hanging in Moots' showroom. It's a no-compromise 29er XC racer with a Press Fit 300 bottom bracket and oversized headset. It's one hot ride.*  *Follow these simple directions and you too can build a Moots MX Divide dual suspension 29er.*
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*Caleb Franklin, lead welder, Mike Sanders, director of operations, and Mark Rasmussen, welder, have a quick meeting in the welding department.*  *Caleb Franklin, lead welder, lays a bead so gorgeous it should be in a gallery. Using argon gas to create a oxygen-free welding environment, each frame is handled with kid gloves — white gloves, actually — to keep contaminates to a minimum.*
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*The coveted Moots head badge. You can't get one unless you buy a frame. We asked.*
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*The finishing department is where frame alignment is checked one last time, head tubes and bottom brackets are prepped, frames are bead-blasted and the decals are applied. Then the frames get a final once-over and the famous yellow tag is initialed before the frame is boxed.*
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*Every piece of titanium scrap is recycled.*  *Got Ti?*
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*Office manager Tami Summy keeps watch over the showroom.*  *John Cariveau is Moots' marketing boss. He runs the website, manages the marketing plan and social media initiatives, gives tours and spends every possible minute riding his Moots cyclocross bikes.*
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*Moots' prez Rob Mitchell grabs his bike for a quick spin through the aspens above Steamboat Springs.* Photo: Greg Ahrens/Special to Wired
