[CR]re:gary klein, was re: villains

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From: "Root,Christopher" <Root@student.uchc.edu>
To: "'GPVB1@cs.com'" <GPVB1@cs.com>
Cc: "'classicrendezvous@bikelist.org'" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]re:gary klein, was re: villains
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 10:13:05 -0500

while on the subject of gary klein, you all may get a kick out of this. i was in the engineering department machine shop one day up at my alma mater (dartmouth college) when the shop staff guy and i started chatting. he asked what i was doing, and i said "oh, building some tools for bike frame building" he told me he used to work at the engineering machine shop at MIT. i said "oh, that's where gary klein learned the trade" and he said "yeah that punk kid stole a bunch of tools from us when he graduated!" interesting. we continued chatting and it came out in conversation that the shop staff guy had a low opinion of mr. klein (as a person, all engineering skills aside),

chris root bloomfield, ct

Message: 8 From: GPVB1@cs.com Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 19:23:45 EST Subject: Re: Gary Klein, was Re: [CR]CR Villains To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

Gotta go with Jerry on this one. No one said he "invented" them, but Gary Klein was *the* one who, after the MIT framebuilding class, went on to market a real product, and the rest is history, as they say.

A friend of mine is a Mechanical Engineering Professor here at the University of Michigan, and when I first met him, I saw a bare, homemade-looking aluminum road frameset hanging in his basement. I asked what it was, and he

replied that he had made that as a student at MIT. I asked if Gary was in the class; he replied "yup." Cool!!

The Engineer that sent a resume and a design proposal to Cannondale alledgedly sent the same information to about two hundred various bike-related companies, and the only one to respond was C'dale.... Smart move on their part, I'd say!

As for 1970s boron-reinforced Klein Team Supers being "marginally on topic" I would defer to Dale on that one, but I'd be surprised if he agreed with that statement....

Cheers,

Greg "that's the only TIG'ed aluminum frame I'd ever be interested in BTW"
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