I think the repaint notion is a good one. I believe the early Drysdales('30s) were marketed as Velox Red Devils. Most were painted red. He was around to repaint a bike or provide decals into the '60s. Also is that a gap in the upper head lug?
I will be interested to see if the frame gets a bid at $500.
Joe
At 01:03 PM 1/2/01 -0700, Monkeyman wrote:
>>Noticed yesterday, search Drysdale. Claims to be from 20s, original paint
and
>>decals, no fork. Very cool but outta my price range.
>
>First off the tubing sticker is totally wrong for the 20's. Plus if memory
>serves 531 didn't come about until the mid-30's. Was Alvin Drysdale even
>building frames in the 20's? My guess is this is a repaint from the 60's.
>Though I could just be totally wrong but I doubt it.
>
>It's things like this frame that kept me off Ebay for so long. Actually
>two weeks ago I went to the darkside so that I could bid on Joshua Putnam
>Simplex stuff for my Lenton Grand Prix. Alas I don't think I'll get the
>bike built up for the monthly left coast classic ride-- next month. Anyway
>Ebay usually just makes me angry because of all the misrepresentation and
>mostly high prices. Though with the Simplex stuff I got from Josh
>sometimes it's the only place to find stuff.
>
>I don't really have problems with people buying boxes or oddball parts for
>huge prices since it's their money. I have a problem with people posting
>things with skyhigh reserve prices then reposting a couple of weeks later
>with lower prices until it sells. This is just a huge waste of bandwidth
>and time. Also people who say, "Campy like" for TA Cyclotourist cranks and
>other NON-Campy items just so the search will pull up their sale. This
>just urks me to no end.
>
>I do have to add that my first personal experience of buying something off
>Ebay was just fine and I only paid $1.50 more than I would have offered him
>in cash. All in all quite nice, now if I can only find a crankset and FW.
>
>enjoy,
>Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
>
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