Jay Sexton wrote:
> As I have read all your various comments as to whether Ugo could or
> could not have built a frame in either four hours or overnight, I can't
> help but wonder have any of you built bicycle frames? Now relax, I'm
> not being arrogant, or snobby, or whatever. I'm honestly curious.
> I have built bicycle frames. It's hard enough to build a TIG'ed frame
> in four hours (I've never been able to do it) let alone a lugged
> frame. There is a LOT of work involved getting tubes and lugs ready.
> Brazing or TIG'ing is the fast part. It MIGHT be possible to build a
> lugged frame overnight IF all a builder has to do is pull a pipe or a
> lug that has been pre mitered, prepped, and ready to go.
> This overnight thing though; boy, it's pushing the limits of credulity.
> Personally I find it hard to believe. It would take more than one
> person to pull this off.
I'm sure DeRosa had piles of pre-cut chainstays (probably with dropouts already brazed in) and forks that could quickly be pressed into service for such a project. Probably other pre-cut tubes as well. Need the top tube a few millimeters shorter? A few minutes with a file on pre-mitered tubes ought to suffice. Lugs could also be prepared en masse in advance. It doesn't sound implausible to me. But you're right -- more than one person would have to be involved to pull it off smoothly.
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John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA