Fw: [CR]Dawes frame lugs/repair

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From: "Russ Fitzgerald" <rfitzger@emeraldis.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Fw: [CR]Dawes frame lugs/repair
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 07:18:23 -0400



>They look very much like the ones on my old Realmrider from circa 1962 ...
>but these are plainer. Mine had similar outer contours, but had lots of
>cutouts in them. Really pretty, actually, and you could see traces of the
>gold paint used to line the cutouts and curls and curves of the lugs against
>the black paint.
>
>No name for them, but apparently Dawes liked them. Mine had the cast
>headbadge that was more 3d sculptural - your headbadge is a pattern I had
>not seen before ...
>
>Russ
>-----Original Message-----
>From: brucerobbins@worldmailer.com <brucerobbins@worldmailer.com>
>To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Date: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 6:02 AM
>Subject: [CR]Dawes frame lugs/repair
>
>
>>If anyone wants to hazard a guess about the origins of the lugs on the
>Dawes frame that Sam DiBartolomeo will be repairing, a few photographs are
>available at:
>>
>>http://freespace.virgin.net/bob.reid1/page25.htm
>>
>>They don't look like Nervex lugs to me but I'm no expert.
>>
>>Thanks to Bob Reid for taking the time between various bike
>repairs/rebuilds to put my pictures on his website.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Bruce
>>
>>
>>
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