[CR]japanese everest

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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 21:54:42 -0500 (EST)
From: <chasds@mindspring.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]japanese everest

other than the graphics being an obvious --and rather charming--tribute to Cinelli... the thing looks a little crude to me. Look at that seat-lug. Doesn't appear to me that it ever saw a file before it was chromed..look at the bottom tang, it appears it still has the typical rough unfairness of a Nervex out-of-the-box.

I have a Baylis frame hanging from a rack in my bedroom right now (my girlfriend is *really* tolerant, you know?)...and I have to confess I never saw a properly finished-off Nervex Pro lug until I had this frame to admire for awhile. Mr. Baylis's work is just off the chart. There are no words. You have to see it. So...that Everest looks crude to me. My standard of comparison has changed.

Charles "I still love Mondias, for instance, but, BOY, are they crude" Andrews beautiful south Orange County, CA