Hello Neil:
Thanks for that heads up about your "O.S." Gillot.
I would love to see pics of that bike. esp. of the lugs...
Got?
Thanks Dale
Dale Brown Greensboro, NC USA http://www.classicrendezvous.com
-----Original Message----- From: neil foddering <neilfoddering@hotmail.com> To: mark@lentran.com; classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Sat, 27 May 2006 21:49:28 +0000 Subject: RE: [CR]Oversize tubing - who did it? Gillott.
I have a 1953 Gillott Taper tube (lugged) with an 1 1/8th inch top tube. It's the only Gillott taper Tube model I've measured, but I understand that they normally had 1 inch top tubes. It's a puzzle, since it's unlikely that they had lugs made specially to take an oversize top tube for a one-off frame, but they appear to be of the standard spearpoint pattern. I've already mentioned it to Mark in his capacity as V-CC Gillott Marque Enthusiast, but has any one else any ideas, or come across other lugged frames of the period with 1 1/8th inch top tubes?
Neil Foddering Weymouth, England
>From: "Mark Stevens" <mark@lentran.com>
>To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: [CR]Oversize tubing - who did it? Gillott.
>Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 19:47:57 +0100
>
>Hello Jan , I can't tell you the wall thickness of a Gillott's
Tapered tube >without resorting to a Hacksaw. That would ruin my
summer! I do recall >Harry Carrington telling me that they experimented
with an ovalised Taper >tube - running across the bracket - for extra
stiffness. A frame was built. >He wanted to patent this idea but it
would have been very costly. Are you >including oversize toptubes?
Gillotts built their lugless L'Atlantique with >1 1/8th'' TT.
> Mark Stevens Evanton Scotland
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