Joe,
Actually the tubing decal says BUTTED FRAME [TUBES] <- that last part isn't visible so I'm guessing. But it's pretty clearly a decal that was not available in '72 or '75.
David -- David Bilenkey Ottawa, Ontario, Canada dbilenkey@sympatico.ca
http://wooljersey.com/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org
> [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of
> joebz@optonline.net
> Sent: December 15, 2006 4:23 PM
> To: Peter Naiman
> Cc: 'classicrendezvous'
> Subject: Re: RE: [CR]FS; 1972 Albert Eisentraut frameset.
> 21&1/2" CC, original condition.
>
>
> All too often what is said about a bike or frame at the time
> of sale is just not so and repeating it doesn't make it ok.
> A little due diligence is required before a person asserts a
> bike is thus and such, even with the caveat that this is
> based merely on the former owners assertions.
>
> Just as a for instance, I really doubt this bike is made with
> straight guage Reynolds 531 main tubes, but thats what the
> sticker indicates.
>
>
http://www.wooljersey.com/
>
> This is kind of bike identification 101 and is an immediate
> tip off (without Bruce Gordon's level of expertise) that the
> frame has been "refinished". Other than Raleigh Super
> Courses and a few oddballs (CCM, Dawes, some Holdsworths come
> to mind) straight guage 531 just does not show up in many
> frames in the US and no custom or semi-custom ones that I know of.
>
> Joe Bender-Zanoni
> Great Notch, NJ