Re: [CR]questions: 753R Peugeot

(Example: Production Builders:Cinelli:Laser)

Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 08:37:35 -0500
To: Richard M Sachs <richardsachs@juno.com>
From: "Jeff Slotkin" <jeffslotkin@home.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]questions: 753R Peugeot
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <20011128.191814.-220689.0.richardsachs@juno.com>


At 07:18 PM 11/28/2001 -0500, Richard M Sachs wrote:
>tom, jack, fred, et al...
>753 was a MATERIAL, not a tube set. The material
>was produced in many guages in all the typical-of-the-era
>diameters and shapes. The same was/is true for 531.
>(And Tange Prestige, for that matter). Most consumers
>would be familiar with the products from all the old ads showing
>a box 'o pipes with the Reynolds logos all over it. Few builders
>actually bought the pre-packaged sets as shown in the ads
>and catalog tear sheets. Most bought their tubes in the guages
>appropriate for the job at hand. Thus, 753 'could' be heavier
>than 531, depending on the choices made. The material's
>characteristics were different and you didn't have to have
>''The Knowledge''*** unless you were buying the 753 pipes.
>The lightest, thinnest 531 was similar to its 753 counterpart.
>Rule Brittania!!
>e-RICHIE, shopworn
>***anyone get the reference?

***Refer ye to the ceremony wherein one kneels before the Lord of the Manor and is given a little tap on each shoulder with a blade of 753 (it's a MATERIAL!) -- which is silver-brazed into a hand-cut, lugged handle -- and declared to be swift and strong and virtuous enough to handle the stuff without making it all droopy? And then given a little diploma with an 'A" on it? Is it true that some of the very best warriors***** didn't get the tap, through no vice in them but that they refused to kneel? *****Was Lucille a knight?

Jeff Slotkin, Camelot (really), Goose Creek,SC