In a message dated 12/28/07 9:57:24 AM, freitas1@pacbell.net writes:
>
> Sunshine bikes in F
airfax was one of my
> customers in the 70s and I only faintly remember them selling Witcombs.
> Paul Brown you out there? maybe you could fill in the
blanks?
> Sunshine had a numb
er of employees who went
> on to become well known like Doug White (American Classic) and Gary
> Fisher (self proclaimed father of the MTB)
>
Ed did have some Witcombs. I bought one for the first ex Mrs. Brown. Quite a
nice pale blue one. And Doug never had anything to do with American Classic.
Before Brown & White Cycles he was Ed's mechanic and also worked for United at SFO as a machinist as well as teaching machining at College Of Marin. Doug's
first hit was The Limbo Spider which enabled you to use a Suntour FW cog as a chainwheel for how low can you go gearing. And the Paul Brown/Phil Brown thing causes endless confusion. Phil Brown A pleasent trip down memory lane in San Rafael. Calif.
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