.... funny story ... maybe. i was unpacking an ebay find one summer several years ago in shorts and was so excited about it, i really started tearing into the bubble stuff. as i went through the mess i flipped the thing over. holey ouch !!! the frame's "widow peak" on the seat lug sent a three-inch cut through my left knee area. took three stitches in the er. .... the frame was a nos wizzard.
"step away from the file brian" !!
you can guess the rest.
roberto clarintini
alex, va
usa
>
> Jack Romans said:
>
> Just an observation...but almost every "custom-class" bike I see has that
> sharp point coming-up off the front of the seat/tube/cluster lug. I'm
> not
> suggesting that bikes that don't have this aren't 1st-class, but it seems
> de
> rigueur
> for 70-80's customs.
>
>
>
> I would caution anyone packing a bike with one of these points or buying
> one
> for shipment to carefully protect the point. I do this several ways, but
> primarily by tying the bike to the side of the box so that it can't
> move.
> Lots of soft packing or an old seatpost inserted will also work. What
> happens
> is that the shipper turns the box upside down and if the bike moves,
> invariably the sharp point pokes through the top of the box, bending or
> otherwise
> blunting the point. I've received two such damaged points in the past
> three
> years. It is a shame because as Jack Romans has recognized, they are
> very nice.
> Lou Deeter, Orlando FL