[CR]Re: Jansen Oomen

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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:42:03 -0400 (EDT)
From: <worthy2@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Re: Jansen Oomen


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>Or: Dutch Cromovelato. And something special it is, indeed. I'm offering to
>the list (please bear with me, its a rather long story) this 1982 Jansen
>Oomen frame and fork.
>The frame was made for the Jansen Oomen bikeshop in Baarle Nassau (
>http://86.82.253.197/). Baarle Nassau is very close to the Belgian border,
>and the frame was made somewhere in Belgium. Baarle Nassau and Baarle Hertog
>are a collection of Dutch and Belgian enclaves, where one can cross from one
>country in another just by walking across your living room!
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>This bike is a bit of a cheat .. Jansen Oomen were a big dealer of Colnago
>frames at the time, and thought it was a good idea to have their own,
>cheaper, brand of frames, but fashioned after Colnago. Look at the details:
>the clover leaf cut-outs, the shot-in seatstays, the chromed lugs. Did
>Colnago have cromovelato? I think they did, so this must have been the
>topping on the cake.
> We have seen that same "Colnago-like" cutout on the lugs before, usually on repainted and unmarked frames, and others have IDed them as being Benelux products...but now we have a real name (or two) and the complete story. Thanks for the edu-macation. -Alan Goldsworthy San Francisco, CA, USA