Sam visited the Davidson shop when I worked there and was given a tour. He was very polite and humble, even excessively so. We knew that, though we had more machinery and made more frames in a month than he ever had, he made very nice frames and there's nothing wrong with being small.
I liked his touring bikes with the pannier racks *brazed* to the seatstays -- AND to the seat tube. No kidding around!
Mark Bulgier Seattle, Wa USA
Monkeyman wrote:
>
> << The guy I started with, Sam
> Braxton, has never to my knowledge had anything written
> about him in the cycling press and only 2 other people on
> the list have even heard of him. >>
and Dale replied:
> You guys are just not old enough... Braxton had a bit or two
> about him in the old Bike World and was pretty well known to
> BikeCentennial riders. He was also known to be grumpy to the
> extreme at times and hard nosed about his bike designs...
> Not that that is bad!!!!