Don,
Thanks for outing this auction. I was recently wondering how long it
would be before one of these turned up for sale. John was a good
friend of mine and he hung around my shop in Costa Mesa, CA and asked
me questions and advice as he built a frame for himself, his first.
He made a few frames here and there. I moved from OC to San Marcos
with the Ted Kirkbride co-op in late '79 or early '80. John lived in
Huntington Beach, where he built the Wolf frames. I painted some of
the very early ones; I'm not sure whp painted the one on eBay, but is
on of the later bikes. John was into touring, so most of his work was
on touring bikes. John is still around SoCal, but I haven't heard
from him in a few years.
There can't be very many Wolf frames in existance, so I would call
this a rare California-builder frame.
Brian Baylis
La Mesa, CA
For the collector of ALL California frames, a
Sencak--a minor footnote, but still a footnote. The
cable stop for an internal cable on the downtube looks
kind of gobby and awkward--not the eye/hand of a
master builder. But the fillet brazed tube connections
look pretty good.
http://ebay.com/
Don Wilson Los Olivos, CA USA
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