I think most of the bikes on these pages started with a blank Brampton or similar lug (anyone have a picture of a BSA Path Racer headtube to get an idea of the raw lug?). Wow.
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http://www.classicrendezvous.com/
No labor saving there. Bill Brennan said at around age 80 "If I never file a lug again ...." Actually Bill built the last Brennan when he was 75 or so and I was trying to get him to consider another one. Bet the Hobbs guys had their fill too. Brian Bayliss has a different approach to potential burnout "Turn up the volume ...." Of course he didn't have his dad setting him on the lug task when he was 12 or 15 years old. Or did he?
Joe B-Z
GNNJ
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> Bruce-
> That '36 Hobbs "skinned my eyes." I never thought I'd pine for a vintage
bike until now. It's the head lugs--they are fine!
> Joe Starck,
> Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
> brucerobbins <brucerobbins@supanet.com> wrote:"...Hobbs were using
handcut-that's genuine handcut :-) lugs from early on in their production.
Here's a 1936 Hobbs Continental with lugs that can only be described as
ornate:
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> OK, so they're not over-the-top fancy like some of the later Hetchins
excesses. I prefer to think of them as Halle Berry to Hetchins Dolly
Parton..."
> Bruce
> Dundee
> Scotland
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