On Tuesday, March 04, 2003, at 02:29PM, Chuck Schmidt <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net> wrote:
>When I researched the '59 Mercian Superlight for the Rivendell article
>there was mention that Mercian was one of the earliest users of fast
>back stays.
I've seen pictures of bikes with fastback and mono-stay setups going back maybe 100 years. Mercian may have been one of the earlier makers to make them standard.
ciao,
Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
SB, CA