Hello,
I just joined up and thought I'd share some comments and some pictures of a few vintage bikes I have. Here's a description of my some of my collecton and the url for pictures of the first three is at the bottom. (I apologize in advance if I'm violating some rules so please be gentle to a newbie...)
1. The grandaddy of them all, a 1972 Eisentraut in original and nearly perfect condition. I bought the frame brand new from Missing Link in Berkeley (I still have the receipt) and rode it quite a bit while I was in graduate school from 1972-1976. It's an early Eisentraut with a
Cinelli-like seat stay attachment, which he subsequently changed/refined. It's also painted in a quite unique multi-color pattern.
2. Ready #1 Black. I took the spring '74 framebuilding class Eisentraut offered and later built this frame in my garage without any "industrial" jigs. I figured out a way to assemble accurately the tubes for silver brazing with simple equipment. This was my racing style frame, 74 parallel as I recall. I spent a lot of time on the lug work and developed my own seat stay attachment design. Eisentraut painted this bike.
3. Ready #2 Red/Orange. This was a touring syle frame, 72 parallel with Prugnat lugs although they look somewhat ike Nervex lugs. Eisentraut painted this one too and he also made the fork for it. My fork had some structual probems (it broke during frame prep as I recall!)
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4. Eisentraut track bike. This was used by Mike Neal for some US track national championships in the 70's. I got it from Eisentraut in the late
70's/early 80's.
By the way my current next door neighbor here in Cupertino also made 2 frames during our Berkeley days, one for himself and one for his girlfriend at the time (who is now his wife of 26 years). Don't have
pictures of those but they are also beautiful if I do say so myself.
The more mundane bikes are:
4. 70's Teledyne Titan
5. '76 California Masi in original good condition (a recent ebay acquisition)
6. late 70's early 80 black Guerciotti in original condition
There are some others (all vintage Italian) not yet built up but...probably enough for now.
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Jim Ready
Cupertino, CA 95014