Garrett wrote:
Check out completed item #3696965247.This bike seems to share some distinct similarities to the red mystery bike,i.e. seatstay treatment,serial number placement,eyelets,even lugs,although they are perhaps many years apart chronologically.Am I seeing things?-
Garrett Drake Washington, DC
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At the risk of being a bore..that seat-cluster was a stock item used on a bazillion italian bikes, including the Frejus TdF, Lygie, early Cinelli Bs and god-knows-what-all. Nothing very distinctive about it other than it was most commonly seen from the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s, and probably later than that..but not much later, I believe. I've always associated that cluster with price-point bikes.. I believe it was rarely seen on the top bikes, except maybe the top Lygie..but, then, Lygies were not exactly artisan frames. Every one I ever saw, at any price, was shamefully crude.
Charles "ready to state the commonplace at a moment's notice" Andrews SoCal
Concerning Carlos Kleiber one of the greatest of all post-war conductors:
The glamour often associated with a conductor's life held no appeal for him; he preferred to stay at home in Munich. He once told Leonard Bernstein: "I want to grow in a garden. I want to have the sun. I want to eat and drink and sleep and make love and that's it."