Re: [CR]RE: 531 production numbers

(Example: Framebuilders:Chris Pauley)

From: <"brianbaylis@juno.com">
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 00:49:12 GMT
To: freitas1@pacbell.net
Subject: Re: [CR]RE: 531 production numbers
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

Bob,

That is correct. That is the reason the the first generation of 753 tubi ng was metric sized; and the early Raleigh team pro frames were made wit h metric tubes also. The French companies were the largest Reynolds cons umers at that time.

Brian Baylis
La Mesa, CA


-- Bob Freitas wrote:


Off list ,someone who is more knowledgeable than I, pointed out

Peugeot claimed biggest out put of Reynolds bikes. Certainly here in California every town had a Schwinn store and if there

was a second store they usually sold Raleigh's but the more I think

about it there were many shops that carried 2 of the 3 and sometimes all 3.

BOB FREITAS MILL VALLEY,

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