I don't have the answers to your query, but why did frame builders start using braze-ons?
Don't they add time to the building process?
Do components work more effectively when secured with braze-ons?
Are tubes weakened when braze-ons are added?
Did they add mojo to the builder's product?
Nick Zatezalo Atlanta,Ga
> [Original Message]
> From: jack bissell <jack_bissell@mac.com>
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Date: 3/21/2004 1:59:20 PM
> Subject: [CR]excess heat in the 60s and 70s
>
> Like a lot of modern bikes my '56 Peugeot PLX-10 has slotted TT
> brazed-on stops for the brake cable. I say they got it exactly right,
> so why would the subsequent millions of Peugeots made since have
> (inferior?) clamp-on guides or unslotted braze-ons?
>
> I notice lots more braze-ons on 50s bikes (shifters, cable
> guides/stops, pump pegs), and many builders and constructeurs NEVER did
> the clamp-it-on thing....
>
> Is there anything to the 60s/70's dogma that braze-ons add unnecessary
> heat?
>
> Jack Bissell loving the look of clamped-on bits but doesn't understand
> their reason to exist in
> Tucson, Az