Mike Kone wrote to say we ought to consider fillet brazed frames pre and post war, too, as he says there were a lot of good ones.
That's a good point, Mike. Let's open it up. I limited it out of ignorance. I simply didn't know that there were a lot of great pre-war fillet brazed frames.
Don Wilson
Los Olivos, CA USA
> Why limit it to lugged frames? Many great pre and
> post war frames were fillet brazed. The best
> pre-war French makers often made their frames
> lugless.
>
> Mike Kone in Boulder CO
>
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> From: Don Wilson <dcwilson3@yahoo.com>
>
> > All these pre WWII frames I read about on CR and
> > salivate over the pictures of: do they ride as
> > wonderfully as they look? I have not yet ridden a
> > pre-war frame. With the same hub/rims/tires and
> drive
> > train on a pre-war frame and a post war frame,
> would
> > they ride about the same? Put another way, did
> frames
> > get better in the 50s and 60s and 70s, or were
> fine
> > lugged steel lightweight frames of the 20s and 30s
>
> > fundamentally just as good as the fine lugged
> steel
> > lightweight frames that came later?
> >
> > Don Wilson
> > Los Olivos, CA USA
> >
> >
> > D.C. Wilson dcwilson3@yahoo.com
> >
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