Re: [CR]Awards from the North American Handmade Bicycle Show

(Example: Framebuilders:Richard Moon)

Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 12:58:31 -0800
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Awards from the North American Handmade Bicycle Show
References: <53789.146.152.216.1.1105995156.squirrel@webmail.nac.net>


wheelman@nac.net wrote:
>
> All the discussion and photos were really a treat here but one thing
> struck me. First let me say that I am not an expert by any means but I am
> a careful observer. It is in that light that I ask this question and add a
> comment. The show title has this adjective disguised as a noun in the
> title "Handmade". Here is where my ignorance may show, since when is a
> carbon fiber bike considered hand made? Did someone there actually set up
> a form, brew up some epoxy solution and hand wrap the results coating each
> layer and take out the rough spots by hand. I ask this so I can talk
> intelligent in the future about these bikes. As for me I am on a no CARBon
> diet so that is why these bikes are foreign to me and most of you from
> what I understand.
>
> Ray Homiski
> Elizabeth, NJ

I'd guess there is more human interaction making a carbon tube than there would be making a steel tube. No?

Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California

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