Re: [CR] American framebuilders that learned in Europe.

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Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 14:07:27 -0500
To: "classicrendezvous@bikelist.org" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "John Betmanis" <johnb@oxford.net>
Subject: Re: [CR] American framebuilders that learned in Europe.
In-Reply-To: <C178D0E9.A8E6%fatticbicycles@qtm.net>


At 12:34 PM 11/9/06 -0500, Doug Fattic wrote:
>I would love to see a list of American framebuilders that learned in Europe,
>who they learned from and when they were there. There are also some that
>learned from a European that came to the states. And some Europeans that
>came to the states. There are some that learned abroad but have different
>occupations today. Just off the top of my head:
>
>Mike Melton - Japan - 1970 (I'm not sure of this or who he learned from)
>Richard Sachs - England -
>Peter Weigle - England -
>Matt Assenmacher - England - Bob Jackson - ( was '72 or '73?)
>Peter Mooney - England - Ron Cooper (76?)
>Doug Fattic - England - Ellis Briggs - 1975 (I'm sure of this one)

Dave Moulton.

North American - Mike Barry and his former partner Mike Brown (Mariposa). Not sure if they actually built frames in the UK before immigrating to Canada.

John Betmanis
Woodstock, Ontario
Canada