Re: [CR]Re: Jevelot Track Bikes inquiry

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing)

From: "dddd" <dddd@pacbell.net>
To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Jevelot Track Bikes inquiry
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 01:00:34 -0800
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The one Jevelot item I find almost indispendable is the Jevelot velcro strap, sold off the cardboard display for a couple of dollars, and functioning as the lightest/coolest watchband I have tried, perfect for racing. OT? I dunno, but they seem to have been around forever now.

David Snyder
Auburn, CA USA


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From: emeneff@earthlink.net
Subject: [CR]Re: Jevelot...accesories



> Lynn,
>
> Jevelot frames were/are made by Hugh Enochs (Inox ?) in the area south of
> San Francisco. Hugh has been around bikes and the bike industry for
> something like four or five decades now and his frames are top-notch and
> no nonsense. They are not that common because he was often busy running
> his import and distribution company, and the frames were sort of a
> side-line.
>
> Jevelot is probably most famous for two items well known to cyclists,
> ahem, "of a particular era" - notably a blue and white poster of various
> Campy parts, and his liquid latex "Tire Life" product used to treat and
> protect tubular tire sidewalls.
>
> The last I heard of Hugh he was busy tweaking the formula for the liquid
> latex to allow its use as an adhesive to bond together the numerous
> (Off-Topic) lugged Carbon Fiber frames that are currently so popular. I
> believe it is currently used for constructing all of the C-50's, and will
> be adopted for Renolds forks next year. NASA, too, has expressed an
> interest in the possibility of using Tire Life as an adhesive for those
> pesky ceramic tiles on the Space Shuttle's exterior.
>
> And you might have thought it was just for base tapes ! Silly You !
>
> Mike Fabian
> San Francisco