Hugh Enox wrote:
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> Does anyone remember the Mairag Swiss road frames. They were briefly imported by DIN Industries sometime prior to 1980.
> I remember being quite impressed by the workmanship on the frames and by the extensive tooling and production equipment shown in their brochure.
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> DIN imported several models of frame and possibly only brought in one batch just to see how they would sell.
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> Clever design details on bike frames can make me quite giddy. One of their models featured fully drilled head lugs with the size of the drill holes being progressively larger and smaller to precisely match the width of the lug. Beautiful! The same model had a diminutive fork crown with the blades quite close together in a two plate design and the crown was 100% machined from one piece of steel. Amazing and beautiful!
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> I've searched the web in vain for some trace of Mairag. Does anyone remember seeing these or know anything about the company that made them?
I saw the drilled lug Mairag frame at the Anaheim trade show in the very early 1980s (?) and picked up a brochure that I still have. Sort of remember it being black chrome with red paint in the holes?
I'm sure you remember how everyone would sell off their show samples at the end of the trade show before heading back east for the next trade show, right Hugh? Then the same thing would happen at the New York trade show. A lot of show bikes wound up in L.A. and N.Y.C.!
Chuck "bought a few show bikes myself back in the day" Schmidt L.A.
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