Don,
I am not aware of any such as doing a comparison of the US, Japanese and Taiwanese Rivendell made/marketed frame but I think it would be interesting to read. Who would be the best venue to conduct the test? Bicycling Magazine? Vintage Bicycle Quarterly? Asphalt (are they still publishing), The Rivendell Reader? Interesting thought!
Mike Schmidt
Stirling, NJ
> Has any magazine or anyone ever done a controlled test
> to see if riders can tell the difference between a
> mass market bike like the Riv. Bleriot from Taiwan vs.
> a Rivendell Custom, for instance? I mean has anyone
> compared custom and mass produced lugged metal frames
> with exactly the same geometry and size and taped over
> all the outward indications of which bike is which and
> then had riders try to pick which one is real and
> which one is Memorex? I figure most list members
> expect they would be able to tell the difference, but
> has anyone actually done such a test?
>
> Don Wilson
> Los Olivos, CA
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> D.C. Wilson dcwilson3@yahoo.com
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