Don Wilson wrote:
Bill Boston, who has a great reputation, just skyrocketed in mine; that is some kind of a beautiful job on that seat cluster and binder bolt.
150065205829
My first experience with Bill Boston was TOSRV, ~1975, where he showed hi s first/prototype tandem. By then, we'd been rinding tandems for a while, and had ridden a bunch of what was available (Paramounts, Jack Taylors, etc. I was stunned. This was clearly thought about from the git-go, with every detail in place and nothing looked tacked-on. One feature was a l ovely arc of tubing from left chainstay to left seat stay. This terminat ed the left mid-stay in a way that allowed mounting a Shimano disc brake, and it was just perfect. Once, perhaps ~1979 or so, I think I remember 11 or 12 Bill Boston tandems lined up side-by-side at an Eastern Tandem R ally picnic. I've seen Bill several times since then, including great co nversation when he came to Cirque, and I really admire him, and his work. Remember the small front wheel bikes, and the marketing with "short is normal" tee shirts? great guy, in my book.
harvey sachs
mcLean va