Hi Dale, I actually had Bill Holland build a custom ti frame for one of my customers a few years ago. The guy rode it in PBP this year. Bill was great to work with. He told me about when he and Brian Baylis and Joe Bell were partners. We talked a bit about frame building too. He was really enthusiastic about the fact that I fool around with frame building. Nice guy.
Regards, Jamie Swan - Northport, N.Y.
OROBOYZ@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 12/4/2003 12:29:28 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> randerson2@grey.com writes:
>
> << The bike shop? (the shop sticker, from "Casa d'Oro Cycles" in Spring
> Valley,
> CA is still intact.) >>
>
> Perhaps this is only peripherally to do with vintage bikes, but I had heard
> through suppliers for years that the was or had been a Casa D'Oro in southern
> California.
>
> Obviously the reason for the conversation in the first place was that we
> hoped we had thought up a unique name when we dreamed up cycles de ORO.
>
> Anyhoo, I was visiting Brian Baylis last year and we drive over to see Joe
> Bell's paint facility.. Joe gave me a very nice tour and that included an
> adjacent showroom, that Bill Holland for his (exclusively now I think) custom
> titanium bike frames.
>
> Joe told me of Bill's involvement in the cycle biz and his help to JB. How
> Bill had a regular bike shop but had gradually downsized to finally focus on the
> Ti frames. The old Bill Holland shop was Casa D'Oro! Small world, eh?
>
> Dale Brown
> cycles de ORO, Inc.
> Greensboro, North Carolina