Re: [CR]Re: Now: BB height, etc.

(Example: Framebuilding:Norris Lockley)

Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 04:20:40 -0500
From: "Angel Garcia" <veronaman@gmail.com>
To: "CLASSIC RENDEZVOUS" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Now: BB height, etc.
In-Reply-To: <c4e.c1209a6.32c96756@aol.com>
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Of the thousands of frames dave moulton built he only built 36 "Pro Criterium" frames. He mentions the 74 degree head angle on his website http://www.prodigalchild.net/Bicycle5.htm. He also used the Columbus PS tube set for this model. Angel Garcia Verona, IT

On 12/31/06, LouDeeter@aol.com <LouDeeter@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
> veronaman@gmail.com writes:
>
> BUT, his (dave moulton) Criterium model has a 1/4 inch higher BB than his
> road model. Along with that he changed seat
> and head tube angles, increased by a degree (73 to 74 head with fork
> offset
> changed to maintain 6cm of trail).
>
>
> Interesting. At Cirque last year, Dave Moulton said that you could have
> any
> head angle you wanted as long as it was 73 degrees as that is all
> he built.
> Dave may be reading so I'll let him chime in if I heard him wrong.
>
> I recall a discussion among some of our more famous framebuilders that
> 7 cm
> of drop was a high bb and 8 cm of drop was a low bb. That seems to me to
> be a
> very small range from which to label high/low, but then, I can't even
> remember what day it is today, so what do I know. Lou Deeter, Orlando Fl