[CR]Hobbs? Or not a Hobbs? (Duncan Granger)

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From: <dgranger@comcast.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 01:55:24 +0000
Subject: [CR]Hobbs? Or not a Hobbs? (Duncan Granger)

http://www.ebay.co.uk item # 7168141869. This does not look like a Blue Riband to me. Never seen a filet brazed Blue Riband.

I have read that some Hobbs transfers were used on later bikes manufactured by others (Hobbs stopped making their own frames in 1954 or so, if I recall correctly). So is this one of those frames? If not, what is it?

Duncan Granger
proud owner of two Hobbs of Barbican cycles
Mountville, PA