RE: [CR]was Ebay: Frejus "TdF"/ Stem and fork crown Qs

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Subject: RE: [CR]was Ebay: Frejus "TdF"/ Stem and fork crown Qs
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:12:55 -0700
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Thread-Topic: [CR]was Ebay: Frejus "TdF"/ Stem and fork crown Qs
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From: "Mark Bulgier" <Mark@bulgier.net>
To: "The Maaslands" <TheMaaslands@comcast.net>, "CR" <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


Steven Maasland wrote:
> The seatlug is a commonly available one that Bozzi even sold
> wholesale to all comers from the late 40's onward. The
> seatstays tabs of the lug are actually male plugs that fit
> into the stays, so you can often see a circular line around
> the stay about one half inch from the lug.

I have a set of those lugs, so I snapped a basic snapshot and slapped it up here for those who need a visual: http://bulgier.net/pics/bike/FrameParts/Bozzi_Lugs.jpg

You can see how the built-in seatstay tops are hollow, so this is not a heavy way to attach stays, it's actually lighter than many other high-quality frames. (Before seeing the lug, I always assumed those were solid plugs.) It's actually pretty slick, with one minor downside, the built-in seatstay-to-seattube angle, which will only fit one frame size without bending.

You can bet they are very malleable though, and can be bent as far as needed for any normal-ish frame size. Yes, "normal-ish" is a word, I read it on the Internet.

Mark Bulgier
Seattle WA USA