Dave has updated his website with more information about his bike building
period. The website is:
http://www.prodigalchild.net/
He has added a section on The Art of Bicycle Frame Building and also describes in greater detail his personal history in frame building including:
1) My frame building experience dates back to 1957; I first learned this craft from a man named 'Pop' Hodges in Luton, England, an industrial town thirty miles north of London. 2) When I first came to The United States I worked for Vic Fraysse and his son Mike. They owned a bicycle store in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, about seven miles from New York City. They also owned a frameshop and I built frames under their "Paris Sport" name..... One of my first jobs was to build frames for the US Olympic Cycling Team. 3) In October 1980 I moved to California and took a job with Masi Bicycles at their facility in San Marcos, San Diego County.....I approached Masi (1982) with a proposition to rent space from them and use their equipment to build my own frames. 4) In July of 1983 I moved out of the Masi shop and into my own facility also in San Marcos. I suddenly had a considerable increase in overhead that the custom frames could not support alone. John Howard a top US rider and former Olympian had approached me to build a line of frames with his name on it. 5) The John Howard frame was only produced for a little over a year and in 1984 when my contract with John ended I started the Fuso line of frames to fill the void in my frameshop production. 6) section on The Art of Bicycle Frame Building (".... would check my frames on a perfectly flat granite surface table and they would consistently be within 10 or 15 thousandth of an inch of true alignment.")
Angel Garcia
Long Valley, NJ