Re: [CR]Help recalling 80's frame builder

(Example: Framebuilders:Masi)

To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 12:37:50 -0400
Subject: Re: [CR]Help recalling 80's frame builder
From: "Richard M Sachs" <richardsachs@juno.com>


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On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 11:19:10 -0500 "Tucker Bunch" <tbunch@crescentcitybeignets.com> writes:
> Does anyone remember a European (Italian?) frame builder from the
> late
> 1980's that built steel frames with a wishbone seat stay? Some of
> the
> interesting features of the frames were ultra short chain stays
> that
> required an indentation in the seat tube, also, the seat stay above
> the
> brake bridge was made of a large (1-plus inch) diameter tube.
> Mondonico
> is the only frame builder that I can find that used a wishbone on
> steel
> frames, but his design differs substantially from the frame builder
> that
> I remember.
>
> Anyone remember?