Re: [CR]Re: Top tube cable guides for 1980 Motobecane Grand Touring (II LONG

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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:35:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Fred Rafael Rednor" <fred_rednor@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Top tube cable guides for 1980 Motobecane Grand Touring (II LONG
To: II LONG <r4959l@msn.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <BAY106-F2404D3257F7BDBD8D41CBDA6F0@phx.gbl>


Richard,
     You might be interested to know that the noted frame builder Francisco Cuevas made his own brake cable guides out of automotive, stainless steel brake tubing.
     I saw him make some on a couple of occasions. He did it all by eye without using a pattern.
      Cheers,
      Fred Rednor - Arlignton, Virginia (USA)


--- II LONG wrote:


> Well, the painter was waiting with breath held while I
> searched every site
> for vintage parts I could find, plus going through a friends
> warehouse of
> almost 800 old bikes and came up with nada, zip, zulch. So I
> made it myself
> and it turned out nicely thankyou very much. The painter was
> incredulus,
> "You make this!" I would never have attempted such a thing
> if I hadn't
> spent the last six months studying the Paterek Framebuilders
> Manual. The
> guides appear to be stamped from flat stock and rolled into
> shape. However,
> I chose to use stainless tubeing and shape it using a pattern
> made with tape
> applied to one of the originals and transferred to the new
> tubing. I'm not
> a silver brazer by any means, or for that matter a metal
> worker at all up to
> now, but managed to get this piece attached successfully.
> Sense I intend to
> use the bike myself and not sell it as vintage, I'm not
> concerned with this
> method. So please ignore my request for this guide.
>
> Richard Long
> Temecula, CA
> USA
>
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