Re: [CR]KOFs and the market.

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Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:57:07 -0500
From: <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]KOFs and the market.
In-reply-to: <00d801c643f3$16685cd0$5e390fd8@D36MSL71>
To: "P.C. Kohler" <kohl57@starpower.net>
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I would venture that my 1930's Brennan and Sieber track bike frames built with Reynolds High Manganese tubing weigh no more than 6.5 pounds. But I'm not taking them apart to weigh em!

Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ


----- Original Message -----
From: "P.C. Kohler"
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:31:00 -0000
Subject: Re: [CR]KOFs and the market.


> Frame weights from the 1980 Raleigh (UK) catalogue:

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\r?\n> frame size: 21 1/2"

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\r?\n> 531 6 1/4 pounds

\r?\n> 753 5 1/2 pounds

\r?\n> 753 TT 4 3/4 pounds

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\r?\n> Now, I don't have a frame weight c. 1950 for Reynolds 531. So let's

\r?\n> just

\r?\n> assume (for no good reason) it's a full pound more than in 1980.

\r?\n> Call it 7

\r?\n> 1/4. But show me a c. 2006 KOF steel frame 21 1/2" that weighs half

\r?\n> that and

\r?\n> I'll eat it with mustard.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Peter Kohler

\r?\n> Washington DC USA