We take you now back to the Fall of 1972, to Corvallis Oregon, a lovely town with some really enthusiastic young racers, mostly still in high school. Susan and I had just moved to town, young, fit, and with our early 50s Schwinn Town & Country tandem that had been hotrodded right well. And we rode readily with the kids, sometimes getting dropped on the hills, and sometimes leading them along on the flats. But one of the youth was rather bothered by the curved seat tube, which actually curved back and then up, so it had two curves and only about 6" - 8" of straight section at the top. He asked how we adjusted the seat height. I gave him a straight answer: "No problem: the seat post curves, too." He looked and looked, trying to figure that out. I finally fessed up that we had several seat posts of different lengths.
That was also the bike that had the derailleur that came closeto disrupting our marriage. I'd found one of them new-fangled Campgranola Gran Turismo super wide range boat anchors, and installed it. It was operated by Stoker, with shifters on the "top" tube. Susan kept missing shifts, and I kept getting mad. Finally she said, ">>>>" it, you can just reach back and shift it yourself." I could reach back, but I couldn't shift any better than she could. I got meek (up, it's true), and the Gran Trashmo still graces my box of horrors. I believe the interim replacement was a Campy Record, until the Suntour GT became available.
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Ronald Lau wrote:
To all,
You can see a picture of a Jack Taylor curve tube.
http://www.flickr.com/
I do have a Bilenky fixedgear with the same type of tube. Stephen said you can still get them from Reynolds (NOS?)