Is the company that made Babbage bridges and saddles still in biz?

[ChristopherG]

I tried searching for their replacement saddles, a youtube video reminded me of them, but I couldn't find them. They out of commission or is my google-fu just weak?

 

[bagman67]

Babicz (pronounced bab-itch) may be who you're thinking of.  They have really beautiful looking gear with obnoxiously emblazoned logos.


Their parts are breathlessly documented at http://www.fullcontacthardware.com


Babbage is the surname of the mathemetician Charles Babbage, who, along with Ada Lovelace, worked out many of the concepts that underlie modern computing back in the 1840s or thereabouts.

 

[bagman67]

I just snooped around the FCH/Babicz website, and it looks like they've taken the critique of the huge logos to heart - there are a lot of very handsome parts with very small logos on them.  I'd even consider buying 'em now.

 

[ChristopherG]

Ah ha. Damn accents. Always sounded like, Babbage to me. Thank you kindly, sir.

 

[mayfly]

Babicz (pronounced bab-itch) may be who you're thinking of.  They have really beautiful looking gear with obnoxiously emblazoned logos.


Their parts are breathlessly documented at http://www.fullcontacthardware.com


Babbage is the surname of the mathemetician Charles Babbage, who, along with Ada Lovelace, worked out many of the concepts that underlie modern computing back in the 1840s or thereabouts.

Yes, and the Ada programming language was named after Mz. Lovelace.

 

[ChristopherG]

It's interesting that one of Lady Lovelace's biggest contributions was her realization that the punch card could turn Babbage's difference engine into a general purpose computing machine. This is interesting because her father, Lord Byron, was a Luddite--like and actual follower of Ludd when he was alive--and railed against the displacement of British weavers by the punch card programmed loom.

 

[fdesalvo]

If Babicz went under, it wasn't due to a shortage of advertising lol.

 

[mayfly]

If Babicz went under, it wasn't due to a shortage of advertising lol.

Maybe it's because of it 

 

[ChristopherG]

Nope Babicz still in business. Yeah, they seem to be proud of their logo.

 

[Cagey]

I just snooped around the FCH/Babicz website, and it looks like they've taken the critique of the huge logos to heart - there are a lot of very handsome parts with very small logos on them.  I'd even consider buying 'em now.

You're right - they're much more tolerable now. This also clears up a call I got from one of my brothers the other day. He was asking about current thinking on Babicz parts, and I said they looked well-engineered, but the logo was too ostentatious for most folks to tolerate. He couldn't understand why anybody would think that, but he was probably looking at the new stuff while I was thinking of the old stuff.