From: "Hilary Stone" <hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk>
> Jack Denny (Hetchins' chief framebuilder) originally christened them in
> honour of Fred Hellens, a South London framebuilder who in the early 1920s
> first built frames with the seatstays crossing the seat tube to join the
top
> tube in front of the seat lug. He may not have been the first framebuilder
> to do this (however I have yet to find a builder who tried the design
before
> Hellens) but it was him who inspired Jack to do it.
> About 16 years ago in an article in the Veteran-Cycle Racing Club
> newsletter I suggested that a good generic term for this type of seatstays
> would be Hellenic - the name has stuck.
Thanks for asking Tom, I guess I didn't know either. So how about "Magnum Bonum" ? How'd they come up with that one? I tried to figure it out on the web and came up with a potatoe and a book!
Pete Geurds
Douglassville, Pa