Doug Fattic wrote:
> I was able to recover my wife's bike - stolen in 1985 - last year because of
> information on the web. It wasn't listed on eBay but rather a question was
> posted on some bike forum about the value of a vintage Doug Fattic frame.
> (The response was that custom frames from "lesser Known" builders didn't
> fetch as much). This was a sentimental bike for me because I had made it
> for her before we were married while learning at Ellis Briggs.
That story gives me hope. I built a couple frames for my wife and myself shortly after we were married, but they were stolen after we moved into student family housing at UW-Madison while my wife worked on her Masters. I'd like to think they'll turn up eventually, but I suspect they're buried in the muck on the bottom of Lake Mendota.
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John (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA