In a message dated 12/10/2004 7:36:53 AM Eastern Standard Time, patrick-ajdb@sbcglobal.net writes:
<< And I guess mention should be made of the Omega shop. Remember, this is the guy who hijacked the Hetchins name for a while? Anyway, altough the Omega shop seems to currently specialize in custom titanium frames, they did do very nice lugged steel frames. This fellow claims to have learned framebuilding thru Ron Cooper, but I don't know if this is true or not. >>
That's Mark Reilly (he used to be Mark Joynt but has changed his name, was an adopted child...) In any case, I sell his Ti bikes (Off topic) but he has totally dropped making anything else.. Steel or aluminum etc.... He told me he worked for Ron Cooper in earlier days.
Dale Brown
Greensboro, North Carolina