RE: [CR]Dave Tesch, the Manic Master...

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From: "Glenn Butzlaff" <gbutzlaff@wi.rr.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: RE: [CR]Dave Tesch, the Manic Master...
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 20:27:25 -0600
In-reply-to: <20031218.112854.11455.1087916@webmail12.lax.untd.com>


I subscribed to this list after a search for Dave Tesch pointed me here. My wife actually mentioned Dave after reading the obit in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, but she just thought it was another Dave Tesch. I was hoping to find someone that knew what happened to Dave after his frame building days; I didn't know that he had moved back to the Milwaukee area. Dave was a team mate back in the late 70's, about the time he became possessed with building the perfect frame. He was an irreverent character; his navy stories were great entertainment. He would call me at the oddest times and bore me to death with technical details about the frame jig he was building, and endless details on filing lugs and finishing tubes. He started building as a hobby, learning from a local builder whose name escapes me. While he got a good start at Trek, he would decry the mass production there and the cookie cutter frames they popped out. After Trek he worked briefly for frame builder Apple as a painter. I lost track of Dave for a while, then out of the blue got a call from him when he was San Marcos. I had a plan to meet him there while on vacation that year, but I blew off the meeting and never heard from him again.

Glenn Butzlaff
Cudahy, WI