In a message dated 8/1/2004 6:22:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bvanbaush@ameritech.net writes:
<< The lug's are the dubois, which have been built up with brass braze and filed smooth (the file marks are still visible). >>
Sounds like a neat bike Brian, but I think that is not a practice DeRosa would have done. I have seen many many DeRosas... You may be seeing file marks from shaping and redefining the lugs. Or have you seen the frame "in the buff" to confirm that? If so, that would be a first, and an interesting discovery for DeRosa buffs. Brian Baylis Jim Cunningham, Joe Bell or any other painters, can any of you tell me I am mistaken and that you have seen this building up the lugs with brass on a DeRosa?
Cheers Dale
Dale Brown
Greensboro, NC