[CR]Re: Chris Pauley

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From: <CYDYN@aol.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:21:00 EDT
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: [CR]Re: Chris Pauley

Chris made over 50 frames for my shop from 1980-1986, including the infamous "Alex Ringer", and two ornate mountain bikes in 1981. Chris made both lugged and lugless frames. He had a finely tuned aesthetic sense and his work shows careful filing. I've kept specs on quite a few of the frames he built for my clients. One of the most striking was a lugless frame with a Phil Wood 4130 ovalized toptube with internal eyelets for brakes. Cyclart painted that frame fading it from a deep candy blue at the BB, base of fork and chainstays through various stages of aqua to a deep candy green on the toptube. Spectacular!! I spec'edseveral of Chris's frames with internal cables, generator mounts and internal wiring, and brazed on head and tailights. James McLean who was Specialized first sales rep in my area took pictures and exclaimed over the features on one of the frames Chris built for me....about 3 months later Specialized launched the Expedition with many of the same features and braze-ons. Chris Pauley and Greg Diamond worked together on a project to build small sloping toptube 700c wheel frames for me in 1984. I showed them at the Long Beach show with my Hisbiscus decals on them. I had heard rumors that Chris passed away, but haven't confirmed it. I'd appreciate any details about him and pictures of the Pauleys and Pauley Tierra'a that are available. I might have sold some of them new.

Paul Brown
Cycle Dynamics
Santa Rosa, CA