>Lynn Travers posted :
>What can anyone tell me about Jevolet track bikes? Only two references
>in the archives and not much there.
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>Lynn Travers
>Hazelwood, MO
Lynn,
Jevelot frames were/are made by Hugh Enochs (Inox ?) in the area south of San Francisco. Hugh has been around bikes and the bike industry for something like four or five decades now and his frames are top-notch and no nonsense. They are not that common because he was often busy running his import and distribution company, and the frames were sort of a side-line.
Jevelot is probably most famous for two items well known to cyclists, ahem, "of a particular era" - notably a blue and white poster of various Campy parts, and his liquid latex "Tire Life" product used to treat and protect tubular tire sidewalls.
The last I heard of Hugh he was busy tweaking the formula for the liquid latex to allow its use as an adhesive to bond together the numerous (Off-Topic) lugged Carbon Fiber frames that are currently so popular. I believe it is currently used for constructing all of the C-50's, and will be adopted for Renolds forks next year. NASA, too, has expressed an interest in the possibility of using Tire Life as an adhesive for those pesky ceramic tiles on the Space Shuttle's exterior.
And you might have thought it was just for base tapes ! Silly You !
Mike Fabian
San Francisco