The small amount of reading I have been able to do on my Claud Butler
Electron Super Five indicates that these bikes were often "custom made"
with a wide variety of options for each part, except the frame. It was
implied that this some how decreased taxes (in England) on the bike and
its parts.
C.J. Scheiner
NYC, NY, USA
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Steven Maasland wrote:
>It seems that in the US, most top end bikes were sold as 'ready-made' >whole bikes, therefore with one particular set of components with only >few options. It has been my observation that this was not at all the >>case in many other countries around the world.