Re: [CR]Masi tubing stickers

(Example: Framebuilding:Brazing Technique)

Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 23:42:58 -0700
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Masi tubing stickers
References: <C102531FB711D411B5B90060B0A468760DAE0C@mail.bulgier.net>


Mark Bulgier wrote:
>
> I wrote about Reynolds fork blade ovals:
> > Reynolds used the name Continental to denote the *skinny* oval
> > (the classic Reynolds oval of yore), and their version of the
> > fat Columbus-style oval was called "New Continental Oval" or NCO.
>
> Have y'all heard of the sport of Googlewhacking? The goal is to craft a
> query on Google.com that returns exactly one hit - pretty hard to do, as
> you'll usually get zero or many thousands.
>
> Well, my search for "new continental oval" (including the quotes) whacked
> the Google, returning only the following link:
> http://www.btinternet.com/~merciancycleslimited/pages/kom_racing.html
>
> Apparently not even Reynolds mentions the term anymore, at least not on the
> web.

Without going to my Reynolds catalogs... Didn't the Reynolds SL tube set from the mid/late 1970s include for the first time the fork blades that mimicked the Columbus oval fork blades. Or were they introduced with 753?

Chuck Schmidt
SoPas, SoCal