Re: [CR] Why do older frames have only one set of bottle bosses?

(Example: Framebuilders:Norman Taylor)

Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:23:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Marc St. Martin" <marc.stmartin@earthlink.net>
To: michael haddad <haddawad399@hotmail.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] Why do older frames have only one set of bottle bosses?


I think Todd Teachout posed a viable theory in his 4/26 post related to Ray's Herse:

http://search.bikelist.org/getmsg.asp?Filename=classicrendezvous.11004.1081.eml

Regards.

Marc St. Martin Livermore, CA USA

-----Original Message-----

>From: michael haddad <haddawad399@hotmail.com>

>Sent: Apr 27, 2010 9:14 PM

>To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

>Subject: [CR] Why do older frames have only one set of bottle bosses?

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>I find that on-topic frames (like my 1984 Cinelli, 1983 Pinarello & 1978 Masi) tend to have bottle cage bosses only on the down tube. I know that 2 bottles were needed for most road races (even in the 80's), so why only one set?

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>The only thing I can think of is that the braze-ons might weaken the seat tube, but then why have them on the down tube?

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>I have been curious about this and would be interested in hearing a definitive answer or some good theories.

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>Regards to all,

>

>Michael Haddad

>

>Brooklyn, NY, USA