Re: [CR]Andrew Hague Cycles

(Example: Production Builders:Peugeot:PY-10)

Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:39:57 -0500
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Andrew Hague Cycles
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Nic Henderson wrote:
> Hello all, I've just done a page on my website about Andrew Hague,
> (who?!) Andrew Hague made and supplied a lot of the frame building
> parts as well as other bike accessories back in the late 70's and early
> 80's. Andrew Hague Cycles supplied braze-on bits to the likes of Raleigh
> and Carlton and also to lots of the small builders both in the UK and
> abroad including Mario Confente and Mitch Kneller of Massachusetts, USA.
> Check it out if interested
> http://www.bikebrothers.co.uk/andrewhaguecycles.htm

Very nice! In the early 80s at Trek we used a lot of Andrew Hague parts, particularly fork crowns and brake bridges. They even made some engraved seat stay plugs but they never made it onto production bikes:

http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/trek-plug-1.jpg http://www.os2.dhs.org/~john/trek-plug-2.jpg

I used one set on a model 720 frame I built for myself (this was only the 2nd frame I ever built); that's the second picture.

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA