Re: [CR] Teledyne Titan queries

(Example: Framebuilders:Richard Moon)

Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 09:14:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [CR] Teledyne Titan queries
To: joebz@optonline.net, gpvb1@comcast.net
In-Reply-To: <e3788093e6c2.43c16d2e@optonline.net>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

Also, I believe that very late in Titan production, some of these frames were sold with Follis decals (therein lies a tale, no doubt). These may have been painted.

Regards,

Jerry Moos Big Spring, TX

joebz@optonline.net wrote: Never say never. There was a batch of factory Teledynes painted a baby blue.

Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ


----- Original Message -----
From: gpvb1@comcast.net
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 07:38:00 -0000
Subject: Re: [CR] Teledyne Titan queries


> Titans weren't painted, and nothing else on the planet looks like

\r?\n> one, so there is about zero possibility that someone could intend

\r?\n> to mislead anyone by purchasing some reproduction Titan decals. If

\r?\n> someone makes some, and then sells some of them, identifying them

\r?\n> clearly as reproduction decals, what's wrong with that? I don't get

\r?\n> it....While we're on the subject, what about reproduction or

\r?\n> replacement decals for fully chromed bikes? I can't get Pogliaghi

\r?\n> decals for my chrome 1960s Pog because some guy won't sell them

\r?\n> without a paintjob....???

\r?\n> Greg "huh?" Parker

\r?\n> Ann Arbor, Michigan

\r?\n> Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 15:53:22 -0500

\r?\n> From: oroboyz@aol.com

\r?\n> To: minneman@alum.mit.edu, Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR]Teledyne Titan queries

\r?\n>

\r?\n> << Does anyone know if Teledyne Titan frame stickers have been

\r?\n> reproduced?>>

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Scott:

\r?\n> Yes, those have been very nicely reproduced by a specialist bike

\r?\n> decal

\r?\n> screen printer.. They however must be obtained from a professional

\r?\n> painter because the maker will not sell to the public. I would

\r?\n> suggest

\r?\n> going to Ed Litton & get him to obtain those for you. Shouldn't be

\r?\n> much

\r?\n> more than $50 for the set.

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Dale Brown

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\r?\n> -----Original Message-----

\r?\n> From: Scott Minneman

\r?\n> To: 'CR'

\r?\n> Sent: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 11:39:28 -0800

\r?\n> Subject: [CR]Teledyne Titan queries

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Does anyone know if Teledyne Titan frame stickers have been

\r?\n> reproduced? I've poked around at the likely sites, and haven't

\r?\n> found them yet.

\r?\n> Probably time to just start phoning around, but I'd love to be

\r?\n> pointed somewhere

\r?\n> likely (or definite) to start with. I'm pretty sure that they were

\r?\n> vinyl to begin with, so they could be done fairly easily by

\r?\n> somebody with the

\r?\n> patterns.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> I have serial number 2062, a 24" frame...no cracks or repairs (but a

\r?\n> mysterious small dent/tear in the seat tube, about midway

\r?\n> down...clearlyfrom trauma, not fatigue).

\r?\n>

\r?\n> If I can't find replacement badges, I'll probably just run it as a

\r?\n> bareframe, as a fixed gear...it looks incredible set up that way,

\r?\n> and there

\r?\n> are a couple of gearing options that work out really nicely

\r?\n> (vertical

\r?\n> drops, so one has to use Fix-Me-Up to identify workable

\r?\n> combinations for the

\r?\n> length of the stays (48-19 is about right for San Francisco)).

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Finally, as a complete long shot...does anybody know of an original

\r?\n> fork for a 24" Teledyne gathering dust anywhere? I know they had

\r?\n> problems, but I thought I'd ask if there was a take-off gathering

\r?\n> dust anywhere...maybe

\r?\n> from a discarded frame that developed all of the other cracks these

\r?\n> frames

\r?\n> were famous for.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Cheers,

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Scott Minneman

\r?\n> San Francisco, CA