Mark Ritz wrote:
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> Peter Kohler says: snip
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> I think it would be accurate to say that the ONLY country in the world
> (aside perhaps from Japan of which I am even more ignorant) that produced
> every single top-end cycle component from Columbus tubing to Binda
> toestraps to Campagnolo derailleur to Universal brakes to REG waterbottle
> cage etc. etc. c. 1965 to the end of the CR Period was indeed ITALY.
>
> Britain loses out because of the derailleur issue and France is
> disqualified because of the frame sets (I think). A PX-10 is 100 per cen
> t
> French manufacture (except maybe for the Brooks saddle, many had Ideale)
> except for the tubing. I don't know of any top-end French racing bike of
>
> this era with French lightweight tubing. > end snip
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> I have a c.1961 Horace Bates with what may be the closest to 100% British parts:
> Williams crank, Benelux derailleurs, Titan bar, stem and post, (snip)
(psst... Mark... Titan is a Belgian company...)
Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California
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