Re: [CR]Re: cookie cutter bikes

(Example: Framebuilders)

Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:03:18 -0700
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: cookie cutter bikes
References: <157.1174f43d.2a72cc00@cs.com>


I wrote:
> Fillets are so boring... Referring to just the joining technique as a canvas for expressing artistry, which is what we are discussing.

To which Greg Parker replied:
> (Yeah, I see no one ever bids on those Herses on eBay - what pieces of crap
> they must be!)

Not the point. The discussion here is not bikes made with fillets, but the fillets themselves, which in comparison to lugs don't offer much of a canvas to display artistry.

I do have an appreciation of fillet constructed bikes. I have a titanium Gary Helrich road bike (Gary was one of the founders of Merlin) that I ordered in 1989 that has polished TIGs. Striking bike!

I also have a Slim Chance MAVIC Neutral Support bike, one of 11 made for the Tour du Trump. Columbus TSX, very small, beautiful TIG-welds; a road bike built with a Chris Chance mountain bike sensibility. Very light steel fork with a sheet metal fork crown cut by water jet and then folded. And of course painted a neon yellow green for MAVIC.

Chuck Schmidt SoPas, SoCal

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