Subject: RE: [CR]Was 753, now is stiffness desirable?
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:53:08 -0700
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Thread-Topic: [CR]Was 753, now is stiffness desirable?
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From: "Mark Bulgier" <Mark@bulgier.net>
To: <oroboyz@aol.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Re:
<<... Making that six national sprint championships in a row
on a frame I built, for anyone keeping score.>>
Dale asked:
> Were those lugged bikes or ?
All lugless fillet brazed (a.k.a. bronze welded), mostly due to the
large diameters, but also to some degree due to unusual angles, and in
some cases non-round tube shapes. Lugs that would've fit don't exist,
and making them is too time-consuming.