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/
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/
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