Today's posts regarding the Exxon Graftek reminded me that I have one in my basement that I intended to sale. It's a 60cm in excellent condition (frame only, no fork); for sale to list members for $160. I have pretty good pictures available via email to interested parties.
Kerrigan Bennett Oakland, CA
-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of ABikie@aol.com Sent: Saturday, May 24, 2003 5:23 AM To: hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR] Exxon Graftek
In a message dated 5/24/2003 7:10:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk writes:
>
> Quite a few list members read Cycling Plus, a British magazine in
> which I have a column called Design Classics - in it I try to cover a
> very wide range of cycles from all periods. In the next issue I intend
> to feature the Exxon Graftek - I have the May 1990 Bicycle Guide
> article on the Graftek by John Derven but have very little else. Larry
> Black is credited at helping John with his article - can Larry or
> anyone else help with further info. Particularly I would like a
> copy/scan of the article in the May 1976 issue of Bicycling - my files
> of Bicycling do not go back quite that far. And any scans of a
> catalogue would also be useful. I will of course credit any help I
> receive. I do have a frame which will be photo'd for the feature.
>
> regards
>
> Hilary Stone, Bristol, England
>
Hilary Thanks for the mention and delighted to help. I submerged to the depths and retrieved my May '76 copy of the Holy Grail, but the only mentiopn and pix of the Exxon were in a photo spread overview of the February '76 NY International show.
That issue kept me up for awhile just pouring over the ads , letters, and stories. Page three is what might be Klein's first advert with the poster girl preceding Jan J.
If you are anyone could give me a reference to any Exxon stories, I'll send the magfor you to copy. I have Bike world, Cyclist, American Cyclist, Bicycle Guide, and manmy exp erimental and short-run mags dating to the 40's.
We carried the Exxon from the beginning at Georgetown Cycle Sport, and I
still have a few of the original ones plus one or two we picked up en
route.
In 1976 John Howard and a couple other notable achievers aligned with
Exxon.
There was the Indy/CoolGear/Exxon pro/am team.
Howie visited our shop and gave a clinic on the Greftek during the
heyday.
Larry Black
Washington, DC.