> So... Saturday this guy walks into the LBS (Cycles Gaansari in
> Springboro) with a polished aluminum 1983 "Burkett". "Where did you
get
> that?" we asked. "I made it" was the guys answer.
>
Bill Shook (started American Classic) made his own aluminum frame around that same time period (he already had some of his own manufactured components by then, too). He raced on it in college, and I think did a few others for friends. It's still around somewhere, probably in FL. It pre-dated the welded Kleins and Canondales, I think. It was instead bonded (like Treks), but used the same oversized tubing concept. There was an article in Bicycling in the early 90's that claimed a Roger Durham frame had been used as evidence in a Klein/Cannondale lawsuit over the OS tubing issue, but it was Bill's frame that was used. I read the court transcripts.
Jon Schaer
Columbus, OH