At 3:25 PM -0800 1/6/10, Mark Petry wrote:
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>>> There are a few framebuilders, who make racing frames, some even from
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>>> steel and with lugs. Nothing extraordinary, though.
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>Really ? NOTHING extraordinary ?
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>C'mon, at least some of the below current builders of randonneur bikes rate
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>Toei
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>Tournesol
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>Peter Weigle
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>Baylis in the randonneur mode
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>And of course the modern Rene Herse
Sorry for the misunderstanding. My comment about the "nothing extraordinary" was about current-day FRENCH builders of racing bikes, in response to a question about current-day FRENCH builders.
As you know from reading Bicycle Quarterly, I consider many of the current builders in North America and Japan quite extraordinary indeed.
Jan Heine
Editor
Bicycle Quarterly
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Seattle WA 98121
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