RE: [CR]$300 for Nervex lugs? & Nervex v. Wagner crowns

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Subject: RE: [CR]$300 for Nervex lugs? & Nervex v. Wagner crowns
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:19:06 -0800
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Thread-Topic: [CR]$300 for Nervex lugs? & Nervex v. Wagner crowns
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From: "Mark Bulgier" <Mark@bulgier.net>
To: "Joe Starck" <josephbstarck@yahoo.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
cc: brianbaylis@juno.com

I wrote:
> > Did you notice that's not the matching BB shell
> > though?

and Joe Starck replied
> That BB looks close to the look of an old BB Brian
> Baylis showed me, about 10 years ago, when I asked him
> if he had any Nervex-like BBs to go with the
> Nervex-lugged frame I was preparing to build.

Here's a nice picture of the real matching BB shell, from John Barron of Velostuf: http://bulgier.net/pics/bike/FrameParts/Nervex_lugs_BB&crown.html

There are also fakes/copies/knockoffs out there, but the real ones have Nervex stamped quite deeply on the bottom.

You can see that the one in the auction, though pretty, has different curlicues. It could even be a Nervex shell, but of a different pattern - Legere maybe?

Mark Bulgier
Seattle WA USA