I did see one a few years ago, the frame was of
lugless construction and had these gussetts around
many joints, including four at the bottom bracket.
This was a touring bike with very elegant racks, and
looked like what you'd get if Keith Bontrager took a
fancy to the camping and randonneur types of bikes.
David Feldman
Vancouve,r WA
> In a message dated 6/20/2002 1:18:20 AM Eastern
> Daylight Time,
> feldmanbike@yahoo.com writes:
>
> << RT Jansen and he advertised "uncommon touring
> bicycles" in the
> early 70's. Jim Merz showed me a catalog of his
> when a customer was
> requesting something French-style. >>
>
> Yeah! I tried to elicit a response about Mr. Jansen
> back a few years ago on
> this lis, to no avail. He lived/worked in Moravian
> Falls, NC at one time,
> maybe early 1970s... Then was said to "return" up
> north, maybe to the New
> England area. My eroding grey matter tells me that
> I called him and got a
> snappy ill tempered response about his bikes.. He
> had a very focussed
> (narrow?) view of his bike philosophy that I didn't
> get at the time. I recall
> the brochure as being a B&W tri-fold in which he
> called his bikes "La Petit
> Reine" (The Little Queen?) and he espoused a short
> top tube and long front
> center and rear chain stays...
> I always wondered what became of him and would like
> to see examples of his
> work...
>
>
> Dale Brown
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> Greensboro, North Carolina
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