In a message dated 6/25/01 12:48:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, chasds@mindspring.com writes:
<< I swear they must have taken those rather ugly short-point lugs right out of the pile, brazed 'em up, and painted 'em. Nary a file mark on 'em...you could still see the casting lines on the lugs of the PX-10 frame I bought.
No offense to anyone with a PX-10. They probably ride fine. But to not even run a little sand-paper or a file over the lugs first seems blatantly sloppy to me.. >>
This tickles me! I think you don't realize how sloppily most production bikes are manufactured! Those ugly little short point lugs are, in fact, DuBois, the same Nervex variation that the likes of Masi and Richie Sachs preferred!! I agree Peugeots were never or barely files but also most others from that era were similarly treated (or NOT treated perhaps is a better way to say that!) There are really gooey jointed Paramounts, Gitanes, Raleigh Pros & Internationals, Crescents (Oh, what was worse than Crescents) Mondia, etc., etc. All the sacred cows! For that matter, that's what I was talking about with the Match made Paramounts too. They were cleanly brazed but no attention to seams to speak of. New cleanly cast investment cast lugs have helped here versus those old lugs (all of them) were pretty lumpy and misformed. Hence the filing was so important.... Production bikes just never had that attention as it was not necessary to be able to sell them
Dale Brown
Greensboro, North Carolina