Re: [CR]Re: Seamed headtube

(Example: Production Builders:Frejus)

From: <OROBOYZ@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 11:39:49 EDT
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Seamed headtube
To: Carb7008@cs.com, Retrofan531@allegiance.tv
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

In a message dated 7/5/2005 4:08:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Carb7008@cs.com writes:

<< I'm a little suspicious anyway ever since I bought a "vintage" Eddy Merckx in the Bay Area for 80 bucks a couple of years ago when I was still green. After getting it home, I could find no provinance, frame weighed and "rang" like a lead pipe. I later learned that these counterfeits were/are common in Italy for the unsuspecting. Nice-lookin' frame though. >>

More likely it was a Falcon made, legitimately licensed bike. In addition to full-on pro models, they also made a full range including cheap models, all the way down to $150 bicycles, and Falcon was famous for placing Reynolds 531 stickers on frames not necessarily having all that......

Dale Brown
Greensboro, NC USA