Finally a small frame that doesn´t have the head lugs chopped together but actually melded very nicely!
nice.
kim klakow berlin, germany
> OROBOYZ@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > This was just brought into my shop for serevice by a customer who bought
> it
> > on eBay...
> >
> > http://www.classicrendezvous.com/
> >
> > I have no idea who made this but it is artfully made. Features to
> notice...
> > - Very refined and thinly filed lugs.
> > - British threading
> > - Very accomplished fast back stay treatment (no lumps, bumps or
> amateurism
> > in joinery)
> > - Domed stay ends (As from Reynolds or hand domed?)
> > - Cinelli SC crown but what lugs?
> > - Long socket BB shell, apparently not investment cast...?
> > - Highly filed up Campag 1010 drop outs.
> > - Expertly stamped frame numbers are a larger size than usual....
> > - Probably repainted and not-correct head decal. (Anyone heard of this
> > "Seraboni"?)
> >
> > What do you say? Someone might guess an Eisentraut or early Ritchey or
> even a
> > Peter Johnson..... or?
> >
> > Dale Brown
>
>
> I'd say artfully made to the max!!! Well, you're guessing in the right
> part of the country...
>
> I say it is a Jeff Lyon of Lyonsport.
>
> >>From http://www.lyonsport.com:
>
> "As a young kid growing up in Sunnyvale (San Francisco Bay Area),
> California, Jeff Lyon found out that top quality bikes didn't come from
> a factory but were built by hand. He set out on a mission to discover
> how it was done. At the time here in the U.S nobody knew the process was
> talking. The only place Jeff could find where anybody was willing to
> share the art of framebuilding with new builders, was in England.
>
> At the tender age of 18 Jeff flew off to England for what was to become
> a seven year chapter in his life. During that time Jeff was a category
> 1 racer, a member of the U.S Cyclo-Cross team and he and another rider
> broke some English tandem records. It was during this time that Jeff
> apprenticed under and worked with what could be one of the greatest
> living frame builders who ever lived, Bill Philbrook.
>
>
> Working together the two built frames for professional European racers
> as well as built experimental new designs for frames and tandems. In
> the process, Jeff developed a meticulous eye for detail as well as a
> series of original frame alignment techniques.
>
>
> Jeff's work became well know back home in the Bay Area of Northern
> California where he was exporting his frames from England. Jeff also
> sold tandems he designed and built to Bud's Bikeshop in Claremont,
> California. They later became Santana and now use the same single
> lateral design which had been used on the tandems that Jeff sold them.
>
> Jeff returned to the U.S. and later moved to Seattle and quickly
> established a reputation in the Seattle bike community where he lived
> several years before settling in the hills of Southern Oregon where
> Lyonsport is now headquartered.
>
> Jeff is an avid fisherman and when he's not in the shop with a brazing
> torch in hand, he is sure to be out on a river closeby, rod in hand
> fishing in his driftboat."
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, Southern California
>
> .
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