All this is making me feel better and better about the Behringer touring fr ame I just bought. I think the guy really was a genius on the level of M arroni or Bruce Gordon.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
big Spring, Texas, USA
From: Dale Brown <oroboyz@aol.com> Subject: [CR]]Lugged Ti frames, Pino, etc. To: jmerz@schat.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Date: Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 5:35 PM
Hey Jim (and welcome to this goofy but fun email list):
I had heard about Cecil Behringer brazing ti frame(s?) but not any details. Hard to imagine him brazing the Pino frames in a vacuum, but who knows? That is cool that you have supplied yet more info. Makes me wonder what happened to Kathy Eckroth and her Ti frame.
Dale Brown Greensboro, North Carolina? USA
-----Original Message----- From: Jim Merz <jmerz@schat.com> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 4:56 pm Subject: [CR]Luged Ti frames
Subject: Luged Ti frames
Back when I was building frames in Portland I ran Into Pino Morroni. He use
d
to visit Portland as he had a crush on a young female national track
champion Kathy Eckroth. He gave one of the very few Pino Ti luged frames to
her to race. Berringer did the brazing, he was the world expert on brazing.
I asked Berringer how he did it and he would not tell me. It turns out the
early Ti tubing was made in Albany Oregon, I think the company was called
Oregon Metallurgical. I went there and met the guy that did the tubing for
Pino. It was a big buck project and as I remember Bianchi paid for it. The
stays were even tapered. Anyway, they did not know how to braze Ti so I kep
t
checking around. I ended up at the U.S. Bureau of Mines, Albany Research
Center http://www.netl.doe.gov/
Jim Merz
Big Sur CA