I first started making racks for Bike Friday something like 7 years ago. At Bike Friday, I made the same rack over and over again with dedicated tooling. The benefit of that specialization is that I could, and had to, work very fast. At times I made 10 racks per hour. That is 6 minutes to cut, drill, bend and braze the rack from raw tubing.
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