Stan Pike was a British builder from Crewkerne in Somerset. He started building in the early/mid 70s and died in the late 1980s I think. He was rated very highly He had worked at Westland helicopter factory before he turned full time frame builder and I was told the early frames were built in a corner of their factory. He was also partly responsible for teaching Arthur Needham at Argos how to build frames. The Stan Pike I have is I think from 1975 and was allegedly built for his son. The brazing and mitreing you can see inside the bottom bracket shell is as good as I have ever seen. The chainstays are exactly the right length with just the faintest hint of a ring of braze and likewise with the seat and down tubes with no protrusion into the shell and shaped perfectly around each other. I would rank him amongst the top ten builders in Britain in the last fifty years. Hilary Stone
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>From: "Dave Feldman" <feldmanbike@home.com>
>To: "Bingham, Wayne" <WBINGHAM@imf.org>, "'classicrendezvous@bikelist.org'"
<classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: Re: [Classicrendezvous] More Gipiemme
>Date: Tue, Oct 31, 2000, 3:33 pm
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> Very nice! Is/was Pike a British or American builder?
> David Feldman
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>>From: "Bingham, Wayne" <WBINGHAM@imf.org>
>>To: "'classicrendezvous@bikelist.org'" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>>Subject: [Classicrendezvous] More Gipiemme
>>Date: Tue, Oct 31, 2000, 8:28 AM
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>>While on the subject of Gipiemme, I have some Gipiemme and Gipiemme-badged
>>components on my Stan Pike. I always liked the crank and seatpost. Very
>>Campy SR-ish, but different enough to be interesting and I can't tell much
>>difference in quality.
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>>Coincidentally, I have just loaded pictures of the Pike into PhotoPoint if
>>anyone is interested:
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>>http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=1304152&a=9678846
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>>Wayne "quiet lately in Northern VA" Bingham