oh ho! you clever person you... i can read backwards, you know.
i would like to enter into evidence exhibit a:
http://www.blackbirdsf.org/
which uses the downtube as an oil reservoir.
i might be off my rocker, but the porch steps are just as comfortable :)
-joel
>In a message dated 7/28/2002 5:08:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>magpie@messengers.org writes:
>
><< Mark wrote:
>"..........And speaking of wacky, what's up with that big ol' manhole cover
>in the top
>of the downtube lug? I suppose it is for lubing the lower headset race, but
>why's it so big?.........."
>
>And Joel answered:
>"................but stranger things have happened in the world of bike
>design...
>
>I've seen bikes before that have used the frame tubes as oil reservoirs..."
>
>
>Of course!...... there was the Egarim (did I spell it right?) which stored
>reserve energy in the frame tubes to be released as needed on the uphills.
>
>http://www.classicrendezvous.com./USA/checkered_flag.htm
>
>(It's been a year or more since this came up.. Let's see who hasn't heard of
>it!)
>
>
>
>Dale Brown
>cycles de ORO, Inc.
>1410 Mill Street
>Greensboro, NC 27408
>336-274-5959
>fax 336-274-6360
>www.cyclesdeoro.com
>www.classicrendezvous.com
>_______________________________________________
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==
i know what innocence looks like - and it wasn't there,
after she got that bicycle...