[CR] Notes on Duncan Granger's pix from Ken Sanford's Fall DC vintage ride.

(Example: Framebuilding)

Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 20:44:26 -0500
From: "Harvey M Sachs" <sachshm@cox.net>
To: dgranger@comcast.net, Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, Ken Sanford <kanford@comcast.net>
Subject: [CR] Notes on Duncan Granger's pix from Ken Sanford's Fall DC vintage ride.


> Duncan Granger wrote about his pix at:
> http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/dmgranger/album?.dir=/4685

Read on, if you'd like some notes, arranged by picture number (but not every picture or bike): 1. Duncan's Mercian. Duncan is very modest, but this is a lovely bike, equipped as one might imagine first build-up. 2. Harvey Sachs's Weigle. Originally built in '82 for a show, complete with Salmon and turquoise paint by guess-who, according to Peter W. It's now in its third dress, but I'm the first retail owner. A lovely ride, indeed, a keeper. 3. Harvey Sachs's Hetchins. '73 Italia Spyder, very much the traditional Hetchins, no curly stays, just the right amount of filagreed drool on fork and stays. I like it. 4. Ben Sanford's Eisentraut tracker. The effect of the pearlescent white paint on an immaculate frame is stunning, and not revealed in the pix. ben has the original matching undrilled fork, too. I've asked him to leave it to me in his will (Ben's younger than I am, to complete the joke). 5. Ken Sanford's Gillot. Ken has been scrupulously careful to build this up right. The "baloney slicer" Harden hubs alone are to die for, and Ken claims that the Cyclo derailleur actually can be shifted. 6. Tom Roberson's Ramboulet is really clean and nice; Rivendell does great work. --- 10 John Tisdale's lavender Witcomb is what I seen when I close my eyes and remember the ride. 14 Paul Raley's #1 Ephgrave. Paul does simply exquisite restorations. He also did Pete Kohler's '48 RRA (below). 16. David Irwin's 82 Raleigh Team Pro, 753, in fulll campaign dress, is emblematic of the breed, if much too young for my memories of Raleigh Pros, all the way back to the unbelievably homely appliance white version with sloping crown and Weinmann CP brakes. Ah, there was progress in Britain! :-) 17. Peter Kohler's '48 Raleigh RRA is best described by Duncan: Raley did STUNNING work on this one. 23. The #1 Ephgrave, again. Help me folks with this picture: would you expect short forged road dropouts with integral hanger on a bike this early? 25. The piece on the lower part of the down tube of the Hetchins is a Simplex "demultiplicator." Just a lever arrangement that moves the derailleur less for a given throw of the shift lever. I think they were originally designed to marry up the very large barrels of down-tube shifter levers designed for plunger RDs with more modern parallelogram RDs. Works nicely to space out the gears on this bike, using a Shimano counter-sprung bar-end with the Crane rear.

Again, thanks for hosting, Ken, for the great pix, Duncan, and the great company, everyone. Sorry I didn't have anything to say about a few of the bikes. harvey sachs mcLean va, except Saturday when I'm going to the B'more vintage ride.