Re: [CR]follis

(Example: Racing:Beryl Burton)

From: "Russ Fitzgerald" <rfitzger@emeraldis.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]follis
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 21:13:06 -0400


Follis apparently built some rando bikes back when - one of the drawings in the Data Book has a bike with what appears to my eye to be a Follis headbadge.

A gentleman named Scott rides one here in the Greenwood area. His has been repainted a couple of times, the original fork was trashed in a crash, the bottom bracket shell broke - but he likes it enough that he took it to Mary Pfeiffer for a new BB shell, some braze-on updates and a paint job. The bike was one that was originally full Campy, full 531 tubing.

Scott's also our fastest guy - he rode the Savannah Century last year on that bike, turning in 4:07. I'm glad he did - I like reminding our modernist wing that they got beat by a guy on a 25-year-old French bike with friction shifting ...

Russ Fitzgerald
Greenwood SC
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