rgf... are products of gargatte, a ffframe parts fffirm fffrom fffrance. very 70s. e-REEESHARD Richard Sachs Cycles No.9, North Main Street Chester, CT 06412 USA http://www.richardsachs.com Tel. 860.526.2059
On 30 Dec 2002 12:06:15 -0800 Morgan Fletcher <morgan@hahaha.org> writes:
> My friend Nick recently bought an older track bike in Berkeley, CA
> with an unknown provenance. The seller said it was built in
> Northern
> California, but can't remember who built it. It has Fiamme
> red-label
> rims, old Clements and my gut feeling is it's from the '70s. The
> lugs
> are long and tapered and thin out nicely at the tips, and they
> definitely show "the hand of the artist". (file marks, some
> jaggedness)
>
> The top of the bottom bracket shell has a marking that is a
> horizontal
> oval containing the letters "RGF". Is that a marking of the maker
> of
> the lug, or the builder? Do you know anything about it?
>
> The odd thing about the bike is that it appears to have been built
> as
> a track bike for the road. No toe-clip overlap, generous fork rake,
> low (for a track bike) bottom bracket and a relatively long top
> tube. It's got campy track dropouts in the rear, campy drop-outs up
> front and very little room for more than a 20c tire at the fork
> crown.
>
> The components are a mish-mash of various brands / eras.
>
> He's going to build up some basic around-town flip-flop wheels for
> it. He won't use the the wheels that are on it, which appear pretty
> to
> be perhaps of the same era as the frame. I'll get specifics for
> them
> and post them to this list as a "FS" item.
>
> Morgan