[CR]Now:Gitane/Anquetil seatstay caps Was:Jack Taylor seat stay top treatrment

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From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
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Subject: [CR]Now:Gitane/Anquetil seatstay caps Was:Jack Taylor seat stay top treatrment
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 09:15:01 -0700

Dale Brown wrote: (cut)
> << It also has the large and very English caps on the stays .
> Speaking of those large caps on the stays , I first became really aware of
> them when Raleigh released the first of the 753 frames . >>
>
> That treatment is not necessarily uniquely English. Many bike makers have
> used that method. The first bikes I saw using that technique (brazing an oval
> or tear drop shaped stamping atop a angularly cut seat stay top) were the
> LeJeune team bikes.. Then Gitanes as well, both in the early 1970s, well
> before 753 was introduced...

On page 98 of The World of Daniel Rebour is a small drawing of Jacques Anquetil's Gitane from 1967 with the oversized (overlaping) seat stay cap. Has a small "J A" stamped on the cap; kewl.

Chuck Schmidt SoPas, SoCal http://www.velo-retro.com (The World of Daniel Rebour copy and more reprints)

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