Re: [CR]FB Italian or French?

(Example: Framebuilders:Brian Baylis)

From: "nelson miller" <nelsmiller@msn.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]FB Italian or French?
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 09:11:32 -0700


Group---- I was under the impression (read: I don't KNOW!) that FB was a French company. I heard that they made the early 3-piece Campag hubs, and eventually, Campag bought them out, continuing to make both brands. I also have a set of "Simplex" marked hubs that are exactly like the three piece FB's and Campag's of the era......so I have always assumed that they made hubs for anybody? Are the Gnutti hubs any different, or did FB make them also? Who really knows? Cheers --- Nelson Miller--- Seattle


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Schmidt"
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 11:14 PM
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]French builders we don't know and FB Italian or French?


Jan Heine wrote:
>
> To get the first thing out of the way: I thought FB was a French
> company founded by an Italian expatriate. Chuck, do you have any info
> to the contrary?

Huh???? Gosh, I guess anything is possible. A French company founded by an Italian expatriate with their factory in Italy?

Who knew...

Chuck Schmidt
SoPas, SoCal