I believe that Jan felt that the French bikes were a notch above anything else being built at the time (and even to this day). I'm sure someone could publish a similar book of English and Italian (sorry, I'm not at all familiar with German bikes of that time period) bikes, as they are quite beautiful and worthy of documentation as well.
John
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Charles Nighbor <cnighbor1@comcast.net>wrote:
> 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
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