Special Ops
Tyler is IF's chief structural and aesthetic technician. He graduated from Massachusetts College of Art with honors and awards in 1997 with a degree in sculpture. While still in school he was trained in the craft of titanium frame building at Merlin Metalworks when it was in Cambridge, MA. After graduating he was hooked and decided to make frame building his career. After many years at Merlin and thousands frames, he decided it was time to go. He left the big factory, the big money, and the oppressive corporate atmosphere to work at IF. He was lured to IF by the possibility of actually having his talents and skills utilized. And they have been, first as head of welding, then as head of R&D and now onto marketing. Just like everyone here at IF he wears a lot of hats, he still welds his fair share of frames and forks, researches new materials and technologies, updates and adds to our product line up, and does all of the catalogs and advertisements. Accomplishments include: the sterling silver headbadge, the disc brake dropouts, the rigid disc brake fork, the shotpeened finish on our titanium frames, the XS titanium lugset, and the 2005 through 2008 IF Catalogs.