Re: [CR]Ed Litton's cambio corsa bike

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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:28:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Joe Starck" <josephbstarck@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Ed Litton's cambio corsa bike
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <092720051754.26413.43398759000929500000672D22007637049C0B020E049C0E0E030A089B@comcast.net>
cc: themaaslands@comcast.net

--- themaaslands@comcast.net wrote:
> It should perhaps be pointed out that Ed's bike is a
> cambio corsa bike and not a Paris-Roubaix model.
>
> I can give you a bit of history regarding this
> particular frame. The lugs, drop-outs and such came
> from what I believe was an early 1950's Aquila
> frame. I had bought the frame sight unseen in Italy
> and it turned out to be totally shot, so bad in fact
> that a repair was not viable. Ed decontructed the
> frame and retrieved the lugs, drop-outs and fork
> crown. He then used the cambio corsa dropout jigs
> that Roland Della Santa has and built himself the
> frame. This worked out very well as Ed is definitely
> taller than your average Italian from the 50's and
> would have had great difficulty to find himself a
> large enough frame otherwise. Ed still has a few
> more cambio corsa dropout frames in his workshop, so
> if you want a made to measure Ed Litton cambio corsa
> bike, it is possible.

Steven, Another listee posted some links to this bike, I think, but they didn't work for me. Can you or anybody post pics of the frame, build, jigging, and such? A few years back, Grant Petersen asked me about my interest in making one, I think he said he could get the parts and jigs, but I guess I said I wouldn't know what to charge as I wasn't familiar enough with the design. Joe Starck Madison, Wisconsin

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