Re: [CR]Raleigh Pro Question

(Example: Framebuilders:Pino Morroni)

From: <OROBOYZ@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 08:23:31 EST
Subject: Re: [CR]Raleigh Pro Question
To: KCTOMMY@msn.com, losborn2@wvu.edu, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 3/30/2002 7:00:56 AM Eastern Standard Time, KCTOMMY@msn.com writes:

<< Did Dale have to file up the lug edges during the resto, or does he just have a steadier hand when pin striping? And if he filed them, does this impact the originality of the bike? Bike boom Raleighs are supposed to be rough and rugged! :>) >>

Raleighs (and Paramounts and PX10s, etc.) varied wildly during those bike boom days. No I didn't file up that Pro. That was pure luck!

<< On a related note, do any other builders use the "shot in stays" as a method of creating a fastback stay arrangement, as opposed to joining the stays to the seat binder bolt? I seem to recall a small British builder doing this, but can't recall for certain. Mercian, perhaps? Does this stay arrangement endanger the seat tube during brazing? Is there a weight penalty, due to the plate on the back of the seat tube? >>

I seem to recall (Warning! Faulty memory synapses being accessed!) quite a number of small speciality builders doing similar things.

The seat tube IS very thin at that end so the habit if adding a small piece of cut up tubing between the stays and the seat tube is a good idea IMO. Sure it adds a bit of weight! It is also a place to add a little artsey flourish. Look at the blue and orange frame half way down the page I made.. http://www.cyclesdeoro.com/Dales_frames/dbrown.htm

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