Dirk,
In fact, your bike is MORE hand-made than the old ones. Back then, lugs were built up as Richard describes, but rarely built by hand - only for tandems or special geometries. These days, as parts are getting harder to find, more is done by hand.
Just finished filing dropouts for my Herse tandem that is being
restored at the Singer shop - the originals aren't available any
longer. The difference is 4 hours in the machine shop vs. opening a
box...
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Jan Heine, Seattle
Editor/Publisher
Vintage Bicycle Quarterly
http://www.mindspring.com/
Richard M Sachs [mailto:richardsachs@juno.com] wrote:
>i was there last summer and spent 2 hours in the store.
>the lugs are all made by nikko.
Hey, don't spoil my imagination! I *want to believe* that the lugs on
my 2003 Singer are built up like in the 60s. At least they are nicely
filed and the inner radii are filled up with brazing.
>if i had the benjamins, I
>would have caved. the zoot factor equals the bling-blingness.
??? I've lost my babelfish
Dirk
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Dirk Feeken
Heidelberg
Germany