Re: [CR]pre- vs. post- WWII frame quality questions

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From: <hersefan@comcast.net>
To: Don Wilson <dcwilson3@yahoo.com>, Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]pre- vs. post- WWII frame quality questions
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:30:45 +0000


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

> All these pre WWII frames I read about on CR and

\r?\n> salivate over the pictures of: do they ride as

\r?\n> wonderfully as they look? I have not yet ridden a

\r?\n> pre-war frame. With the same hub/rims/tires and drive

\r?\n> train on a pre-war frame and a post war frame, would

\r?\n> they ride about the same? Put another way, did frames

\r?\n> get better in the 50s and 60s and 70s, or were fine

\r?\n> lugged steel lightweight frames of the 20s and 30s

\r?\n> fundamentally just as good as the fine lugged steel

\r?\n> lightweight frames that came later?

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Don Wilson

\r?\n> Los Olivos, CA USA

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

\r?\n> D.C. Wilson dcwilson3@yahoo.com

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