Robert, An easy one at last. Aende frames were made by Pongo Braithwaite in Nottingham. He seems to have specialised in TT machines and made two or three for a local friend who was an early proponent of sloping top tubes and lots of seat post. They were usuallu very tight on clearances and I remember Geoff's having a lot of overlap when I borrowed one of his machines for a 25. When I saw Geoff last week at the club "5", the last of the season he told me he had put a saw through them all - he was riding a Trek carbon fibre job - ughh. The lst he had heard of Pongo he had just come througha disastrous marriage to a lady from the Far East and had returned broke and broken. C'est la vie, et l'amour. So stick to making frames all you KOF builders.
Nigel Land
Barton on Humber UK (enroute to Hay-on-Wye for the Trevor Jarvis Flying Gate weekend)
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:43:27 -0700 From: "robert st.cyr" <rpstcyr@hotmail.com> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: [CR]another mystery bike Message-ID: <BAY20-F15EBBD50BFCD0BC10EAA74A2390@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: list Message: 13
Perhaps someone can help me identify a lovely chrome drillium race frame
called Aende. I obtained the frame set back in the winter from England and
have been unable to find any information as to the builder or city the frame
was made. The frame has campy drop-outs, reynolds 531 frame and fork tubing,
no rack mounts and a short wheelbase. The lugs have been thinned and drilled
with red paint to decorate the drillings. This bike was intended for racing
and has a wonderful ride quality that is both balanced and smooth. It is
currently built up with nuovo record and omas components. The seller said it
is English made and was built in the seventies, but offered little else in
info.
Thanks friends
Robert St.Cyr
Sacramento, California USA