In a message dated 12/10/2005 9:32:36 PM Pacific Standard Time, Brian Baylis writes:
Dale, What do you mean exactly?
It looks like an old school homebuiltish touring bike made from Nervex P ro lugs (modified a bit) and useing a variation on the clamp type stem s ystem. Looks like a brazeon for demultiplictor(sp), has braze ons for ru bber chain slap thing, and so on. Not sure why the drilled steerer, exce pt for weight savings. It's all a bit ugly in my opinion. But maybe that 's the trud brown color talking.
Brian Baylis
La mesa, CA
Can anyone figure out what this bike is?
http://homepage1.nifty.com/
Dale Brown
I agree with Brian. It looks to be an homage to Singer, Herse, etc. The extended steerer and clamp stem and all the braze-ons are very similar in execution to my old Singer. Interesting seatlug design; it either looks like it has an expander post like the Singer, or the Simplex post head is welded into the seat tube. Nice touch in adding the Simplex seatpost badge to the seat tube.
English or American, I would guess. Wonder what the threading is...
Mark Ritz Sunny Arcata, CA _www.kinetic-koffee.com_ (http://www.kinetic-koffee.com)