Subject: [CR]Was 3RENSHO how about Echelon
> Recently I became the guardian of a Japanese Echelon frame, dating from
> the mid-eighties.
> Does anyone on the CR list remember anything about these frames?
I remember working on quite a few of these frames, either repairing or refinishing them. I know them quite well.
They had excessively strong forks. I repaired quite a few that had been crashed with the fork remaining completely undamaged but the top and down tubes being. folded.(Just as with Cinelli's).
There was no Echelon factory. Echelon was just a private label name owned by DIN Industries who was the importer.
Actually, the Echelon frames were made by Cherubim, a very well respected Japanese builder, whom I once had the great pleasure to visit.
Hugh Enox
Jevelot
La Honda
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