For what it's worth, Chris Kvale Cycles is Chris Kvale. Not another soul ever touches his work from start to finish *including paint*. See his work this spring at Le Cirque, where he will be speaking and showing and swapping. He wants to speak at length about his theories on geometry, offset, trail, etc., but I am trying to counsel him to tell us STORIES about his dinner with Merckx, DeRosa, etc, as well as his stint in the Pan-Am Trials, his record-setting Trans-Continental ride with his brother, his racing against Lemond when Greg was a junior, beating Stetina at the line in a sprint, etc.
I understand that these stories don't really fit the topic of American framebuilders, (that's the topic, right dale?) but his stories are great.
This dude is so quiet and modest, that I have been trying to be his cheerleader, (he lives down the street) but his work speaks for itself.
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John Barron
Minneapolis