At 9:17 PM -0500 11/14/09, Harvey Sachs wrote:
>Besides, the lugless work and pin striping are tres cool.
>
>This is one wild, original, and carefully thought-out bike, and I
>wish I could afford one.
According to those who have ridden the Integrals, they didn't ride well. The bearings never were aligned correctly - being one in each fork blade, they moved as the fork flexed - and so developed play very quickly. We published a letter from Fred DeLong's files, from M. Rabault, who reported that it was a bit of a disaster.
Too bad, because I, too, had been fascinated by the bike. Another, perhaps even more interesting Integral was featured in one of the first issues of Vintage Bicycle Quarterly.
Jan Heine
Editor
Bicycle Quarterly
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