Re: [CR]Now: FS: 1979 Bruce Gordon Was: Rating the top builders?

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To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: <youngc@netreach.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Now: FS: 1979 Bruce Gordon Was: Rating the top builders?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 23:35:48 US/Eastern

Chuck:

Not at all over the top. I think the seatlug looks very graceful with the deeply scalloped top sides. I also concur with Monkeyman's taste for top routed cable guides on the BB shell. The sculpting of the stays/fork blades at the dropouts are nice also.

Charlie Young Waiting for a Hetchins in Honeybrook, PA therefore possessing a rather extreme definition of what constitutes "over-the-top"
> Chuck Schmidt wrote:
> >
> (snip)
> > I have a 1979 Bruce Gordon frame that I'm selling for a friend.
> (snip)
> > You can see it at:
> > http://www.velo-retro.com/BruceGordon.jpg
> (snip)
> > I'm sure
> > you'll all agree that Bruce's seat lug treatment with the seat binder
> > bolt hidden in the fast-back seat stays would have to be considered
> > sculptural art, or as close to it as you can get on a bike.
>
>
> I thought there would be a nice dialog (dialogue?) on what you people
> thought of the seat lug on the Bruce Gordon. Love it, hate it, it's way
> over the top, it's grotesque, it's sublime. Watdayathink???
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, California