RE: http://ebay.com/
Tom Sanders wrote:
As far as keeping purists away from the sale, some purists would know that for $10 extra you could get that bike from Carlsbad with top tube braze on cable guides and for a little more money you could get other brazed on guides and bottle bosses, if the original catalogs and brochures can be believed..
I am wondering if Bob Hovey can see from these photos if they are the originals or not?
Tom Sanders
Lansing, Mi
Tom;
I'm not sure which top tube brazeons would have been "standard option" at th is time... I'm sure there are a few framebuilders out there with really good memories or some old parts catalogs that could at least tell us if the twin -loop guides that are on this particular bike were available in 1974.
I do know that several Carlsbad bikes supplied with early optional guides ha d handmade ones that were Mario's design... they were identical to the ones that appeared on his own later bikes, a pipe strap shaped loop with pointed ends (if you are not familiar with these you can see one at the very edge of this pic):
http://collection.rydjor.com/
Bob Hovey
Columbus, GA