Re: [CR]Re: amateur framebuilders on CR

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To: GregParker1@compuserve.com
Cc: feldmanbike@home.com, 110404.153@compuserve.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 22:15:18 -0800
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: amateur framebuilders on CR
From: Mark A. Perkins <bicyclemark@juno.com>


Dave, Greg, & group:

Although I believe I may have mentioned these before, someone asked, so here it is again.

To date I have built five custom framesets, three of which I built for myself and still ride regularly. All are : #1 - 57 cm, road-touring, built in 1984, Vitus 172 DB tubing, Henry James Folson lugs & BB shell, Shimano Dura Ace vertical drop-outs with one eyelet each, Deore Cantilevers, and mostly Dura Ace of '84 vintage with TA chainrings mounted on Shimano Deore Dyna-Drive crank arms and pedals. #2 - 57 cm, road-racing, built in 1984, Columbus SL, Prugnet long point lugs, Gipiemme short horizontal drop-outs, was built for cost of materials plus $100, for a friend. It has since been torn apart by a Lincoln, and fortunately my friend only had a few scrapes and bruises. The bike is history though. #3 - 57 cm, road-racing, built in '89 painted in '90 (my personal favorite), Columbus SL, Henry James lugs & BB shell, Cinelli "MCA" fork crown, polished G.P. Wilson S.S. drop-outs, and polished, 304 "quarter-hard" S.S. seat-stays and head-tube, platimum-pearl-white with most of Shimano's Sante' group, Hi-E hubs, white Royal Gran Compe brakes, levers & hoods, white Flite seat, Dura-Ace pedals (one set clipless, and one set w/toe clips), and lots of violet anodized bits all over. I know Dale, slightly off topic, but she's still a beautiful lugged bike. #4 - 69 cm, road-club/century ride bike, painted black Starthane with all chrome rear triangle, chrome Henry James lugs and chrome forks (drop-outs are Campy horiz. road). The owner is 6'-7" tall, and the frame I built for him is the first bike (since his childhood) that has ever fit him. He took it for a 10 minute ride the day he took it home, and to date I have never experienced a more fulfilling feeling than I had upon seeing the smile on that man's face when he got back from his first ride. It's the only one I haven't seen since delivery, and I hope that's a good thing. #5 - (really off topic) Mtn. bike, named "Sasquatch", w/SA elite series, sealed-bearing, alloy body, drum-brakes, fillet- brazed-lugless, Dura Ace vertical drop-outs, Tange Prestige Mtn. OS tubing, braze-on mounts for four water bottles, one of which is on the handlebar stem which I also made. I like to call this my expedition bike, but I have yet to take an expedition on it.

At present I am without my own shop space, although I am told I have access to a shop about an hour's drive from where I live. However, if all goes well, I should have at least an apartment or house with a garagenous zone in the very near future, and I do plan to build another frame for the owner of the Lincoln ravaged frame, and a special track frame for myself , so that I can mount my Dura Ace-10 track group with the Cerchio Ghisallo (spelling?) wood rims on something. Both of those will have curved seat-tubes if all goes as planned. I have also drawn up plans for a really funny "funny bike" with a 12-spoke, 20" aero front wheel, and 24" aero rear wheel. I have more lugs, and tubing, and I can always get more, so there must be more frames in my future. I hope I haven't bored anyone with this. If you want to see some mediocre photos of the three I built for myself, I have an album under my name at Photo-Point.

"Bicycle Mark" Perkins Visalia/Fresno, CA

On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:07:17 -0500 gregparker1 <GregParker1@compuserve.com> writes:
> I have a total lifetime output of two (still riding both eighteen years later).
> Built a crit. bike for myself in 1982 and a touring bike for my wife in 1983.
> Had some guidance from Mike Appel in Madison WI, but did all the work myself
> by hand in my apartment(!). Mike's painter at the time painted both of them.
>
> Soon thereafter, Trek offered to hire me as a second-shift silver
> brazer for $5/hr.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Greg "semi-retired very amateur framebuilder" Parker
> Ann Arbor, MI (45 F and sunny today!)
>
>
> David Feldman wrote:
>
>
> <Good to have you on the list; how many of us amateur framebuilders are on this (list) anyway?
>
>
> _______________________________________________

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