Re: [CR] Re: Will Aluminum bikes ever be future classics?

(Example: Framebuilders:Bernard Carré)

From: "Hugh Thornton" <hughwthornton@hotmail.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] Re: Will Aluminum bikes ever be future classics?
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:41:43 -0400


Can you fill us in on the Klein-Cannondale lawsuit? -- am sure that lots of us ignorant foreigners do not know about it. Who sued whom and why and what was the outcome?

Thanks Hugh Thornton
>From: Ken Wehrenberg For example, one of my bikes is an oversized tube
>model, it is from long before my period-correct Vitus 979, it has
>bulge-formed lugs with something like Christmas card glitter slathered all
>over them, its pedigree was used an an example in the Klein-Cannondale
>lawsuit. I happen to have serial #6 and it is a Hi-E Cosmopolitan and it's
>a classic Aluminum bike right now!
>
>Ken, near St Louis