Re: [CR] Was: Match Bicycle Co built tourer. Now: Tim Isaac

Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:23:36 -0500
From: "John Thompson" <johndthompson@gmail.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: Eugene Powell <radfin@SpiritOne.com>
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Subject: Re: [CR] Was: Match Bicycle Co built tourer. Now: Tim Isaac

On 06/03/2010 12:58 PM, Eugene Powell wrote:
> Still looking for '76 Olympic team photos and information. I have a '76
> Tim Isaac with a number tag and very distinctive proportions (57cm seat
> tube, 53cm top). I'd love to know who this frame was made for and find
> some original decals.

We have two TS Isaac bikes here -- a spare frame built for USCF in 1979, intended to accompany the team to the Moscow Olympics (which never happened due to the boycott), and a late 70s touring frame:

http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/tsisaac/cirrus1.jpg http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/tsisaac/Stratus1.jpg

Brian contacted me last year after he picked up his TS Isaac, and he used my photographs to design reproduction decals for his frame:

http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/tsisaac-decalos.pdf

These may be a newer style than your frame, but perhaps they'll suffice.

I also have a package of the yellow bands with "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" (used to offset the seat tube panel) that Tim gave to me before he left Trek.

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA