Chuck Schmidt asked-
> This is certainly an odd statement! What I remember of lugs in the
> 1980s was that hardly anyone was doing much filing anymore. Cutting
> down on the handwork to maximize production and their profit.
>
> Anyone have examples of "thin thin filed lugs in the 80s particularly"?
I can't think of any era in which lugs were filed thin. Can you? Of course, we're talking about production bikes not one man shops. That whole thin lug thing is cool but it was a fashion only adopted by a handful of American framebuilders. Not that there's anything wrong with that!
Curt Goodrich
Minneapolis, MN