You're right Peter, I do love it. I wonder about the sizing of British vs. Italian bikes, I think a lot of folks pass on Brit frames because they think they're small when sized by the seattube measurement. I'm wondering if it's just my impression or actual reality that British lightweights had longer toptubes than similarly sized Italian bikes, at least in the '60s and before. My impression is that Italian bikes had toptubes shorter than their seattubes and used longer stems. British bikes seemed to have square frames or even longer toptubes than their seattubes and run shorter stems. Does anyone else see this or am I just hallucinating? best, Brandon"monkeyman"Ives taking my "KOF" bike out in the nasty weather in Vancouver, B.C.
On Thursday, Nov 3, 2005, at 09:30 US/Pacific, kohl57@starpower.net
wrote:
> If anyone still doubts that classic English lightweights c. late
> '40s-60
> s
> are hard to beat for their names, colours, lining and especially
> transfers
>
> (decals), I offer the following late 1950s Hopper "Vampire" (don't you
> lov
> e
> it?!) frameset on eBay:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/
>
> Not my auction and sadly another too small English frame for me..
>
> Peter Kohler
> Washington DC USA