Re: [CR]Proteus experience, anyone?

(Example: Framebuilders:Tony Beek)

From: "Mark Poore" <rauler47@hotmail.com>
To: hayesbikes@mail.nls.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Proteus experience, anyone?
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 08:35:34 -0400


Hi Tom,

I grew up in the Washington area and spent many hours in their bike shop and got to see their frame shop as well. In the beginning, as with many new frame building operations, the quality wasn't great. Over the course of time the quality improved quite a lot. In the end they were making some very nice frames. They offered frame building classes at one point as well as the materials needed to build a frame. Not sure what or when it all happened, I moved away from the area, but as far as I know they are no longer in business.

Snowshoe Mountain has now become a city of bikers.

Mark, the wild asparagus is just about all gone to seed, Poore

Sunny Slatyfork, WV


>From: Tom Hayes <hayesbikes@mail.nls.net>
>To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: [CR]Proteus experience, anyone?
>Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 07:55:32 -0400
>
>I have picked up a Proteus Design frameset, touring model, and am wondering
>whether any list members may have experience with these frames and the
>quality of that experience. I read the section in "The Custome Bicycle" on
>Proteus Design and found it interesting, but it did not provide any
>information of its quality (though that is the nature of the book, I
>think). Are these frames still made? Does Proteus Design still exist as a
>company?
>
>Thank you.
>
>Cheers.
>
>Tom Hayes
>
>Tom Hayes
>18585 Munn Road
>Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44023
>hayesbikes@nls.net
>hayes@jcu.edu