Today in one local bike store in Columbia I was talking to a young man probably almost half my age (I am 57). He aparently did sales and mechanical. We were discussing saddles. When I told him I liked vintage bikes he told me he had a 40 year old Hurlow that was his "baby" . I said I remembered Hurlow was one of the great English builders but had not seen any. He had it there and showed it to me. It was an all chrome beauty he had rigged as a single speed using a very small chainwheel. He said it was not a track bike but I noticed the rear dropouts were angled somewhere between track and road. Not sure why, but he called them horizontal dropouts. The lugs were beautifully tapered - so thin at the tips- almost blending into the tubes. The only paint was red in the lug "windows"
Mark Cutrufelli
Laurel,MD
USA