My former boss and friend Dennis Sparrow spent six months orso as an un
paid intern for Geoffrey Butler in 1974-75. He returned with Flying Scot fr
ames, Butler, MKM, Roberts and others thatwere sold in the Cyclist shop in
Missoula, Montana. Dennis didnot built large amounts of frames, but the one
he built for me, I still cherish. He used Columbus SP to build me a tourin
gframe. Dennis has gone on to a career as a gunsmith. I worked in that sho
p in the summer of 1976 when Bikecentennialwas just down the street and we
had thousands of bicycle tourists stop in.We worked 7 days a week that summ
er, and other shops in Missoulalike Braxton were also extremely busy. Rob
b Rasmussen Brookings, SD
> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:07:27 -0500> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: johnb@oxford.net> Subject: Re: [CR] American framebuilders that lear
ned in Europe.> > At 12:34 PM 11/9/06 -0500, Doug Fattic wrote:> >I would l
ove to see a list of American framebuilders that learned in Europe,> >who t
hey learned from and when they were there. There are also some that> >learn
ed from a European that came to the states. And some Europeans that> >came
to the states. There are some that learned abroad but have different> >occu
pations today. Just off the top of my head:> >> >Mike Melton - Japan - 1970
(I'm not sure of this or who he learned from)> >Richard Sachs - England ->
>Peter Weigle - England -> >Matt Assenmacher - England - Bob Jackson - ( w
as '72 or '73?)> >Peter Mooney - England - Ron Cooper (76?)> >Doug Fattic -
England - Ellis Briggs - 1975 (I'm sure of this one)> > Dave Moulton.> > N
orth American - Mike Barry and his former partner Mike Brown (Mariposa).> N
ot sure if they actually built frames in the UK before immigrating to> Cana
da.> > John Betmanis> Woodstock, Ontario> Canada> _________________________
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