Mark Bulgier wrote
>>>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?<<<<
List member Greg Thies has a very fine early Eisentraut with that detail. It is, as you describe, both perfectly functional and stylistically complementary to the lug. I hadn't really looked at one up close before, but since I was building up Greg's bike last year, I got a chance to really look at it. It's filed and finished off just as nicely as everything else on the frame. Just perfect. I fully intended to take some pictures while I had the bike, but never did. Greg has taken some pics, and has promised to bring the bike back by so I can shoot some. Maybe this will be the impetus needed for Greg and I to get together so I can get a pic of that nice little detail and post it.
Wayne Bingham
Falls Church, VA