Morgan Fletcher wrote:
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> Chuck Schmidt <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net> writes:
> > Gosh, I thought this would generate some actual on topic discussion on
> > the list for a change. You mean to say that none of you were around or
> > active in bikes in the 1970s??? Say it ain't so...
>
> I was 2 in 1970.
>
> Otis Guy was building custom frames in Fairfax, CA in the 1970s. I believe
> he built the Anchor Brewing Company-sponsored "Anchor Steamer" that he and
> Joe Breeze rode to a trans-American record in the early 1970s. I believe
> it's still hanging in Village Pedaler in Kentfield, CA. I may be wrong.
>
> I think Joe Breeze counts too, but I can't be sure.
>
> Della Santa is essentially NorCal, but Reno is in Nevada.
>
> Morgan Fletcher
> Oakland, CA
Yes, I think the Joe Breeze might count but it would depend on the number of road bikes he built.
The book _Bicycle Frames, a Close-up Look_ by Joe Kossak published in August 1975 lists only 29 builders nation wide and that includes Schwinn and Masi. Their criteria was builders "on a reasonable commercial footing."
They eliminated guys who had built five or ten frames from their list.
Most listed in the book were building in California.
There is a very, very long list of guys that starting building in the 1980s but we're (I'm) not counting them for my theme.
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California
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