Re: [CR]FB hubs: Fratelli Brivio or Brivio Freres - Italian or French

(Example: Production Builders:Pogliaghi)

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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 09:50:21 -0700
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Jan Heine" <heine93@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]FB hubs: Fratelli Brivio or Brivio Freres - Italian or French


>As I look at the box it is marked "F.B." (Fratelli Brivio), not "B.F."
>(Brivio Freres). Correct?
>
>Chuck Schmidt
>South Pasadena, Southern California
>
>. As I said, I now understand why the French FALSELY have assumed for so long they were buying a French product when they bought FB hubs.

As we decided back then, FB was an Italian company - you said certainly, I said most likely. I think we should be able to tolerate that much disagreement. -- Jan Heine, Seattle Editor/Publisher Vintage Bicycle Quarterly http://www.mindspring.com/~heine/bikesite/bikesite/