re: [CR]Bill Boston on Ebay...GREAT binder bolt treatment

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Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 15:17:49 -0500
From: "Harvey M Sachs" <sachshm@cox.net>
Subject: re: [CR]Bill Boston on Ebay...GREAT binder bolt treatment
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, dcwilson3@yahoo.com


Don Wilson wrote:

Bill Boston, who has a great reputation, just skyrocketed in mine; that is some kind of a beautiful job on that seat cluster and binder bolt.

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My first experience with Bill Boston was TOSRV, ~1975, where he showed hi s first/prototype tandem. By then, we'd been rinding tandems for a while, and had ridden a bunch of what was available (Paramounts, Jack Taylors, etc. I was stunned. This was clearly thought about from the git-go, with every detail in place and nothing looked tacked-on. One feature was a l ovely arc of tubing from left chainstay to left seat stay. This terminat ed the left mid-stay in a way that allowed mounting a Shimano disc brake, and it was just perfect. Once, perhaps ~1979 or so, I think I remember 11 or 12 Bill Boston tandems lined up side-by-side at an Eastern Tandem R ally picnic. I've seen Bill several times since then, including great co nversation when he came to Cirque, and I really admire him, and his work. Remember the small front wheel bikes, and the marketing with "short is normal" tee shirts? great guy, in my book.

harvey sachs
mcLean va