RE: [CR]Suggest a frame to hang Dura Ace EX off??

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Subject: RE: [CR]Suggest a frame to hang Dura Ace EX off??
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:20:00 -0700
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Thread-Topic: [CR]Suggest a frame to hang Dura Ace EX off??
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From: "Kenneth Naylor (MOLC)" <knaylor@microsoft.com>
To: "Steve Leitgen" <sleitgen@charter.net>, "Simon PJ" <simonpj@mac.com>
cc: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

I remember a bike the shop I rode for having a "Lotus" like the one in the link below that was total aero...

http://www.rydjor.com/bikecollection/1981lot.htm

Ken S. Naylor Fargo, North Dakota USA

-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of Steve Leitgen Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 4:39 PM To: Simon PJ Cc: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: [CR]Suggest a frame to hang Dura Ace EX off??

One of those Tange aero tubed frames built in Japan. Darned if I can remember the company name but it came stock with Dura Ace EX and later AX.

Steve Leitgen LA Crosse, WI

On Jul 24, 2006, at 2:52 PM, Simon PJ wrote:
> I have a nearly-new late seventies Dura Ace EX groupset that is
> waiting in
> boxes for an appropriate frame.
>
> What would you suggest as an appropriate frame for that era of Dura
> Ace? I
> believe the Flandria team were amongst the first to be successful with
> Shimano in European racing in the late seventies - but a quick eBay
> search
> suggests that finding the right Flandria frame might be a challenge.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wyndham Pulman Jones
> Girton, Cambs. UK