Re: [CR]No more DeRosas : they all broke ?!?!

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From: <OROBOYZ@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 11:22:15 EST
Subject: Re: [CR]No more DeRosas : they all broke ?!?!
To: john@os2.dhs.org, Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 11/7/2004 12:02:28 AM Eastern Standard Time, JohnThompson@new.rr.com writes:

<< When we were designing the first Trek bonded Al frame back in the early 1980's we built a stress testing machine similar to what Damon shows on his web site. The model "2000" Al frame was designed to have riding characteristics similar to a steel frame (in part to avoid problems with Klein's patent on using oversize tubing to increase frame stiffness). The prototypes for this model were tested on the machine to demonstrate that the frame and bonded joints would be at least as durable as those of a steel frame of similar geometry. >>

Neat insight on this question, John.

Makes me curious about your background with Trek, you and I may have almost overlapped in our association with the Big T company. I was their very first manufacturer rep in the mid atlantic~-south east USA. My territory (in the beginning at least) was from Wash DC to Florida! Shortly after that they hired Bucky Weatherell to do Georgia & south....I have many funny(?) stories of those days with Bevil Hogge, Tom French, etc.

Sorry to bore the rest of you with this bit of Americana!

Dale Brown
Greensboro, NC