All I know is what it says on the CR home page: The purpose of this not-for-profit site is to encourage those interested in enjoying and preserving vintage lightweight "racing" style bicycles of the period from the early 20th century until 1983. "
And, the KOF builders, which are listed.....
Angel Garcia Long Valley, NJ
> I've never taken the policy to exclude production frames or
semi-production
> frames which are steel and lugged. Bikes from the 70's aren't any less
> classic if they were high volume and affordable like the PX-10 as opposed
to
> custom made in limited quantity like a Confente. Why should we make that
> distinction of traditional style new bikes? My wife and I have two
Bianchi
> TSX-UL frames from 1996 or 1997. One Midnight Blue on Celeste, one
Celeste
> on Midnight Blue. Both are lugged steel, standard size tubing, threaded
> forks, half chromed stays, cutouts in the head lugs. Columbus TSX tubing.
> This model was made almost unchanged from the early or mid 70's until it
was
> discontinued in 1997, except it was probably originally Columbus SL
tubing.
> The only unfortunate change near the end of the model life was an ugly
> unicrown fork which I replaced with a chromed full-sloping clone of a
> Cinelli fork. I think this bike and the handfull of traditional style
> production bikes still produced are every bit as On Topic as a Sachs or
> Rivendell or Singer, although certainly not as valuable.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Houston, TX