It's very interesting to hear about truly old aluminum bikes as described by Mr. Stone. The fact that they existed at all is news to me. I take it that you have made your response with tounge in cheek and that you too would like to know more about this obscure vintage equipment. It is not actually significant to you that these, or any other bikes did or didn't last, is it?
I pose the question to the list at large: Does vintage equipment need to be durable and/or function well under the conditions that you subject it to in order for it to be of interest to you?
Tom Dalton
> What!!!!!!?????????? Fifty and sixty year old
> aluminum frames!!!!!?????????
> Impossible!!!!!!! They are excremental!!!!!!! They
> break!!!!!!! Ask the
> List!!!!!!
>
> Rick Chasteen, Kansas City
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Hilary Stone <hilary.stone@tesco.net>
> To: <OROBOYZ@aol.com>;
> <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 4:47 PM
> Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Aluminium bikes, pieces of crap
> and other nonsense...
>
>
> > There are certainly some aluminium frame bikes of
> CR interest. I have two
> > French frames that surely qualify - a Pierre
> Collin from about
> 1939.........Finally it should not be forgotten that
> Mercier built quite
> large
> > quantities of aluminium framed bikes both utility
> and racing in the 40s
> and
> > 50s. These survive quite well.
> >
> > Hilary Stone
> >
> >
> >
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