Re: [CR]French frame with split seat tube?

(Example: Racing:Jean Robic)

Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 17:28:28 +0100
Subject: Re: [CR]French frame with split seat tube?
From: "Hilary Stone" <hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: <airart4@juno.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031021.111056.-832193.3.airart4@juno.com>


This I think is a Salmon - the same guy that did (and I think still does the ultra-narrow mudguards) - the frames started in I think in the early 80s - so are on-topic just and continued into the 90s. They were fillet brazed.

Hilary Stone, Bristol, England

Mike Short wrote:
> Does anyone know of a French made frame that had a seat tube that was
> split to allow for a short wheel base. In other words the seat tube split
> and went around the wheel. The frame may have been produced in the 80s so
> if it is out of the CR time line please respond off list.