[CR]Re: Gazelle 531 Speedstream / Columbus Air tubing... (Ian Briggs)

(Example: Humor)

References: <MONKEYFOODepdNQIS9n00000a70@monkeyfood.nt.phred.org>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:34:07 -0400
In-Reply-To:
From: <lemansgtman@aol.com>
Subject: [CR]Re: Gazelle 531 Speedstream / Columbus Air tubing... (Ian Briggs)

A lovely bike indeed - and it reminds me.

Can anyone on the list say whether Columbus Air tubing is on-topic?

I suspect not.

I only ask because in my stable a I have a "Bill Nickson" made from this tube set (who built that I wonder? - not Bill 'cos as far as I know he has never been a builder). As it's a lo-pro time-trial bike which apes the Lemond TDF winning machine - it's almost certainly off-topic.

As a point of interest, Columbus Air of course needs it's own dedicated seatpost, and as the one I got with the bike for a joke low price (off good old ebay) came with a badly graunched 'post - it was a nightmare sourcing a useable replacement.

I could find none in the UK but happily a CR list member came to the rescue and sold me a new 'post which of course had been 'born' in Italy, crossed the Atlantic to spent some time NIB in a shop stockroom in the 'States before travelling back to Europe to me in the UK...

Ian Briggs
LUTON - UK