The Limited decals are a nice period piece when seen nowadays; Lippy from
the same time (70's) was even more perfectly dated--check the graphics on
one of his early frames!
David Feldman
Vancouver, wA
> In a message dated 10/28/2002 8:40:25 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> stevens@veloworks.com writes:
>
> << > This link gets you to the on-line Bicycle Trader and has a neat
> interview with
> > Bill Stevenson from 1996. It is pertinent to the discussion about
> provenance
> > since he talks about being one of the guys who brazed the Eisentraut
> Limited
> > frames in the early 70s. I suspect many listmembers would think that a
70s
> > Eisentraut was probably built by Albert Eisentraut. Lou Deeter,
Orlando FL
>
>
> The Eisentraut Limited was a lower-priced production model ... and pretty
> much a complete failure. Eisentraut himself pretty much disavows them.
>>
>
> Well, slow down.... The Limited was a financial flop but they worked just
> fine as bicycles! Albert doesn't like them because it caused him business
> head aches!
> It was a less expensive alternative to his one-at- a-time customs, the
> Limited being, by its definition a production frame..... rather like the
> Rainbow Traut later on (he apparently couldn't resist trying again) and
many
> people were involved with their manufacture. I don' think Eisentraut
> promised, even with the A frames, that he brazed every joint or filed
every
> lug. There where times it was just him working and times he had
> assistants...Bruce Gordon was working for Eisentraut back then too. Who
else,
> anyone know? That doesn't make those frames a loser as bikes except for
the
> monetary aspirations Albert placed on them. And, of course, the decals
> were... shall we say an "unfortunate" aesthetic decision when viewed
> backwards in time? <g>
>
>
> Dale Brown
> Greensboro, North Carolina