RE: [CR]Another "odd" lightweight frame design.......

(Example: Racing:Beryl Burton)

From: "Mark Bulgier" <mark@bulgier.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: RE: [CR]Another "odd" lightweight frame design.......
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 12:04:13 -0700


Bob Reid wrote:
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> http://www.flying-scot.co.uk/page62.html
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> [snip] it has two more tubes than usual !.
>
> Is this just another "funny" frame with peculiar ideas ?.

Nice frame! I don't know why the builder added the extra tubes, but I have seen them on loaded touring frames to take some sway out of the rear pannier rack. US builder Sam Braxton used to build 'em that way IIRC. That frame probably wasn't used with panniers though, right?

Mark Bulgier
Seattle, Wa
USA