[CR] A question on the book, The Golden Age of handbuilt Bicycles

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From: "Charles Nighbor" <cnighbor1@comcast.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 13:12:56 -0800
Subject: [CR] A question on the book, The Golden Age of handbuilt Bicycles


I received has a Christmas gift The Golden Age of handbuilt Bicycles by Jan Heine,and others. A great book. But I have a question on the book.The book covers nearly all French builders. My question is this, wasn't there other great builders in other countries and if so isn't the book title misleading has it doesn't cover those other countries. What happened in England, Italy, Germany, USA ,Sweden etc in terms of bicycles. Surely the French weren't the only ones building great bicycles for the era they were built in?
Curious Charles Nighbor
Walnut Creek, CA
USA