Re: [CR]R.T. Jansen?

(Example: Framebuilding:Restoration)

From: <CYCLESTORE@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 16:26:42 EDT
Subject: Re: [CR]R.T. Jansen?
To: OROBOYZ@aol.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 5/22/01 7:27:52 PM, OROBOYZ@aol.com writes:

<< Does anyone know about this builder? Known to have lived in Vermont.. also a few years in Moravian Falls, NC... He built a French style touring bike called "La Petite Reine." Anyone have a bike by him or know if he is still with us?

Dale Brown Greensboro, North Carolina >>

Dale,

Before I knew much of Rene Herse in the late 1970's / early 80's, Ken Wallace used to drop by the shop and mention a fanciful fellow in the Mountains of NC that built elaborate tour bikes with only French Components. How odd. I regret never seeing one.

Gilbert "very odd" Anderson