Re: [Classicrendezvous] I was gone, now I'm back

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Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 17:04:47 -0400
From: "Steve Freides" <sjf11@idt.net>
Organization: Friday's Computer, Inc.
To: "Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org" <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [Classicrendezvous] I was gone, now I'm back
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My custom Bilenky, which Brian Baylis will be re-painting in a few weeks, is built of Columbus Nemo chromoly steel and fillet brazed. I asked the folks at Bilenky Cycle Works and they told me that some of the tubes are .4 in thickness only. In fact, they could not honor one of my requests for a different placement for the water bottle braze-ons because the tubing had reinforcing (butting, if you like) in the places where the bottle braze-ons needed to go, and putting them somewhere else wouldn't have worked. Ah, the price we pay for a weight-weenie bike! But the bike did work out to ride wonderfully and also be wonderfully light, so I got what I asked (and paid) for.

-S-