skip sinatra wrote:
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> This begs the question: what are the post '83 guys "still getting done"? In both the "flame" concept and your "still getting done"---doesn't both the flame and the doing that is getting done necessarily relate back to what builders were doing pre-1983.
Some Keepers of the Flame that weren't building pre-83:
David Bohm http://www.bohemianbicycles.com/
And it's even possible that there are some that were not yet born in
'83. Peter Johnson was building exquisite frames by the time he was 18
(and he never worked for any framebuilders as an apprentice)! Check out
this flame from an 18 year old in '75:
http://www.velo-retro.com/
Chuck "backlash is a force to be reckoned with" Schmidt South Pasadena CA
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