dale wrote below: <but I am talking about the BIG prestigious "small makers"... >
who? e-RICHIE Richard Sachs Cycles No.9, North Main Street Chester, CT 06412 USA http://www.richardsachs.com Tel. 860.526.2059
On Sun, 9 Feb 2003 10:51:31 EST OROBOYZ@aol.com writes:
> In a message dated 2/9/2003 3:20:17 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> italianthread@cox.net writes:
>
> << This Maza Promax 90 is tig welded and over-built, with the Max
> shaped tubes
> & aero fork blades. >>
>
> Arrrgghhh!!!! Someone run and turn the Off-Topic alarm off, it's
> killing my
> ears!
> This Maza talk does point up that these guys are likely still at it
> somewhere
> in Italia as there is no way that bike could have been early to mid
> 1980s
> with tig welding, right? Interesting as this is probably just
> another small
> builder who is unknown of late in the USA....
>
> By the way, while we drift off topic (!) in the industry I am
> hearing more
> and more that these welded bikes, famous names supposedly Italian,
> British,
> etc., are in fact made elsewhere, far away in one of the Chinas...
> Obviously
> we already know about Masi, "Mercier", "Motobecane" much less
> "Weyless" parts
> but I am talking about the BIG prestigious "small makers"... I find
> this very
> discouraging and even more reason to scamper back to our focus time
> frame or
> the true keepers of the flame!
>
>
> Dale Brown
> Greensboro, North Carolina