Re: [CR]re: riv lugs

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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:57:32 -0500
From: <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]re: riv lugs
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To: Joe Starck <josephbstarck@yahoo.com>
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Joe Starck said:

Charles, http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dephgrave%26ei%3DUTF-8%26fr%3Dush1-mail%26b%3D1&w=325&h=464&imgurl=www.oldbicycle.co.uk%2Feph17.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oldbicycle.co.uk%2Fmarques%2Feph%2Feph17.htm&size=45.5kB&name=eph17.jpg&p=ephgrave&type=jpeg&no=20&tt=52&ei=UTF-8 Is this what rocks your world?: Lug designs that look like dead squids splatted on the pier? Joe Starck Madison, WI USA

I say:

I'll take the Ephgrave "squid" over the Rivendell "pizza with everything" anyday.

Joe Bender-Zanoni
Great Notch, NJ


----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Starck
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:47:00 -0000
Subject: Re: [CR]re: riv lugs


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\r?\n> --- chasds@mindspring.com wrote:

\r?\n>

\r?\n> > As for the Riv lugs themselves, the main gripe I

\r?\n> > have with them is

\r?\n> > that the proportions of various curved tangs are not

\r?\n> > very

\r?\n> > pleasing, and the curves themselves have a number of

\r?\n> > knuckles in them (that is, the curves are not

\r?\n> > smooth, they

\r?\n> > have flat spots) that

\r?\n> > I find exceedingly displeasing. The total effect,

\r?\n> > for me, is that

\r?\n> > the lugs appear "sag" on the tubes, instead of

\r?\n> > looking more

\r?\n> > flighty, which is how I prefer fancy lugs to look,

\r?\n> > a-la Hurlow,

\r?\n> > Condor, Ephgrave and Carpenter, or even Nervex,

\r?\n> > among others.

\r?\n> >

\r?\n> > Finally, they do look like they were designed by

\r?\n> > committee, with

\r?\n> > obvious references to italian, french, and english

\r?\n> > styles tacked onto each other in what seems a

\r?\n> > dissonant, even

\r?\n> > ludicrous, way.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Charles,

\r?\n> http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dephgrave%26ei%3DUTF-8%26fr%3Dush1-mail%26b%3D1&w=325&h=464&imgurl=www.oldbicycle.co.uk%2Feph17.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oldbicycle.co.uk%2Fmarques%2Feph%2Feph17.htm&size=45.5kB&name=eph17.jpg&p=ephgrave&type=jpeg&no=20&tt=52&ei=UTF-8

\r?\n> Is this what rocks your world?: Lug designs that look

\r?\n> like dead squids splatted on the pier?

\r?\n> Joe Starck

\r?\n> Madison, WI USA

\r?\n>

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