please email me off list at this email address: burl.simon@gmail.com and include name of kof builder, campany name, address, phone number, fax, email address and any other info that will be helpful; i will compile the list and send it to jan for his vbq website and/or his publication vintage bike quarterly. remember that they still must be producing one lugged steel model in 2004/2005 to qualify for addition to this list. thanks and regards, burl simon in los angeles where it is 87 degrees today 12.14.04
-------------- Forwarded Message: -------------- From: Jan Heine <heine93@earthlink.net> To: b.b.simon@att.net Subject: Re: [CR]Origins of Trek Bicycle Company Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:21:22 +0000
Burl,
Do you want to compile that? Would be of great interest, for sure. I agree, 100 or so should cover it. I would publish it in VBQ or on the VBQ web site.
Best,
Jan
jan,
i would like to see a list and phone numbers, email addresses, street addresses etc. of all keeper of the flame builders still making lugged steel bikes in 2004-2005; it couldn't be more than 100 worldwide and maybe less than 75. this cr list could easily name them all. thanks and regards, burl simon in los angeles 12.14.04
-------------- Original message from Jan Heine <heine93@earthlink.net>: --------------
> For those of us not yet born then or still living on different
> continents or not yet into bicycles, when did all this happen,
> approximately?
>
> Maybe a timeline of American builders/manufacturers would be useful.
> Could start from the very beginning. With all those glorious pre-WW I
> brands, when American bikes were considered the best of the world.
> But mostly the current stuff, from Wastyn via Paramount, the early
> pioneers such as Eisentraut and others, etc. The little I know is
> from Konlin/De la Rosa's book "The Custom Bicycle," not the most
> reliable of sources.
>
> It should include off-topic brands, such as Diamond Back (may have
> been on-topic in the early days) and Cannondale.
>
> If this is of no interest to this list, please e-mail me off-list,
> and I'll put it in an upcoming issue of Vintage Bicycle Quarterly on
> American cycling...
> --
> Jan Heine, Seattle
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