In a message dated 4/5/2003 12:08:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, monkeylad@mac.com writes:
<< On Friday, April 4, 2003, at 10:02 PM, chasds@mindspring.com wrote: > Anyway, my question is this: how rare is a bike like this, anyway?
I don't think they're all that rare, though their distribution in the US has been on and off over the years. I think most of the bikes that made it over the Pacific were track bikes. >>
Hmmmm. I think that might possibly be true in some geographic areas with tracks nearby, but out here in the hinterlands, we sold road frames. When Andy Muzi was selling them through Ariel we (the store) bought a reasonable number of the frames. In our market/in our shop, we rated them right up there with the big boys... . In fact, in a period of Italian bikes with "new" investment cast lugs in which little or no filing or "fiddling" with (labor savings) 3Renscho had a high degree of workmanship. On the top model especially, the SRA, among other details of refinement, the lugs were filed to exquisitely long, thin, artistic points.. For a while, 3Renschos were the "weapon of choice" in east coast Criteriums as they were much zippier, higher bb, etc. than the ride-all-day Italian and British raid racing bikes.
Dale Brown
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