Re: [CR]Is mystery 531 frame this famous builder's?

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To: john@os2.dhs.org, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Is mystery 531 frame this famous builder's?
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:03:49 -0500
In-Reply-To: <45BE14F2.8020603@new.rr.com>
From: <oroboyz@aol.com>


<< I have two of his Colorado-era frames

right here. One of them even has the same lugs as the Mystery Bike.>>John, can you take some nice pics of those for the CR site? Especially decals frame details etc..? Interestingly, I had a nice page up for Tim's stuff, incl. scans of his catalog from Colorado days, but it dissapeared some time ago in a mystery glitch...

Thanks Dale Dale Brown Greensboro, North Carolina USA http://www.classicrendezvous.com -----Original Message----- From: johndthompson@gmail.com To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 10:38 AM Subject: Re: [CR]Is mystery 531 frame this famous builder's?

oroboyz@aol.com wrote:
> Well, I will go out on a moderately stable Limb and guess (note the
> word I used) that that frame was made by Tim Isaac in Colorado the
> mid 1970s....

Now that you mention it, it does look a lot like Tim's work. I don't know why I didn't think of that; I have two of his Colorado-era frames right here. One of them even has the same lugs as the Mystery Bike.

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA