Does anyone have a 'Traut with the cast-in cable guides in the BB shell, for above-BB routing? Looks kinda like the clamp-on Huret Jubilee cable guide (the nicest clamp-on guide I've ever seen), only the cable guides were cast-in extensions to the lug pockets for the downtube and seattube.
How I lusted after one of those! The points on the lug pockets were so artfully shaped that they made perfect cable routing without looking like they were compromised in any way for cable routing - they looked like they were just really nicely-shaped lug edges that just happened to also be nice cable guides. All this is from over 20 year old memory, and I only saw a couple of them, so I might be romanticizing them a bit. If anyone has one or remembers them well - were they as nice as all that? I'm thinking early 70s, before the Limited, but it could be later, '76?
I think I may have heard the story something like this: He quit framebuilding for a time, sold his tools including the tooling for this BB shell, and so had to revert to using other people's shells when he started up building again, a couple years later.
Mark Bulgier
Seattle, Wa
USA