In a message dated 1/20/03 2:09:29 PM Eastern Standard Time,
lksbks@ix.netcom.com writes:
> Subj: Re: [CR]Single Santanas (Santani)?
> Date: 1/20/03 2:09:29 PM Eastern Standard Time
> From: <A HREF="mailto:lksbks@ix.netcom.com">lksbks@ix.netcom.com</A>
> To: <A HREF="mailto:Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org">Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org</A>, <A HREF="mailto:richardsachs@juno.com">richardsachs@juno.com</A>
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> Hi All,
> They were very cool. Some of the first way oversized Columbus tubing.
> Santana was experimenting with the tubing and the combination of brazing
> and
> tigging. They wanted to get it right before they used it on their tandems.
> I seem to think they are out of our time base though(90-92ish).
> I do miss Santnna's fillet brazed tandems(80's), they were true works of
> art.
>
> Garry Nold
> Kent, WA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard M Sachs" <richardsachs@juno.com>
> To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 8:55 AM
> Subject: [CR]Single Santanas (Santani)?
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>
> >back 'in the day' i thought the Santana Moda mtbs
> >were beyond cool. are there are others that remember
> >this bicycle?
> >e-RICHIE
> >Richard Sachs Cycles
> >No.9, North Main Street
> >Chester, CT 06412 USA
> >www.richardsachs.com
> >Tel. 860.526.2059
I'll help here a bit, as I currently ride a Moda as my only mountain bike. The first editions were fillet brazed in 1987, and fully equipped with Campag Bullett shifts and their OR and / or Centaur group.
A leter tig edition came out soon and was also available as a frame
I still have a Moda fillet in a wrapper as well.
They still make one of the nicest finoished fillet tandems on the planet- columbus-tubed Noventa.
The last of the 'non-Noventa' fillet brazed Santanas rolled off the lines in 1993- the fillet Sovereign. Today's Sovereign sports a 7005-series frame. even though it's non fillet brazed, it's 'stacked-coin' welded joints are done nicely by today's standards. Now, having mentioned 'today's' in the conversation it's time to stop straying even further off-era.
Larry Black
Mt Airy, Md