Re: [CR]re: SEcond tier bikes

(Example: Production Builders:Teledyne)

From: "Dr. Paul Williams" <castell5@sympatico.ca>
To: "Bob Freitas" <freitas1@pacbell.net>
References: <46490FEC.6070907@pacbell.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]re: SEcond tier bikes
Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:44:02 -0400
reply-type=response
cc: classic rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

Not easy though - where does one fit the Raleigh Ilkeston SB workshop handbuilt bikes - hardly mass-produced factory bikes? My frameset from the latter establishment is worlds apart from the Grand Prix I had as a teenager!

Paul Williams,
Ottawa, ON, Canada


----- Original Message -----
From: Bob Freitas
To: claSSIC RENDEZVOUS
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 9:42 PM
Subject: [CR]re: SEcond tier bikes



> I guess I interpret this differently
> First level Cinelli, Masi ,Colnago,
> Hetchins,Jack Taylor ,Paramount , Eisentraut etc...................low
> volume custom builders
> second level mass built pro type bikes ATALA
> ,Bottechia ,Raleigh etc...............bikes that feature top components
> but are production type bikes
>
> BOB
> FREITAS
> who was able to stand under a 1957 FERRARI
> TESTA ROSA V12 today and marvel at the poor welding
> MILL VALLEY, CA
> USA