[CR] A question on the book, The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles

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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 10:37:22 +0200
From: "Amir Avitzur" <walawalaoxenfree@gmail.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, <heine94@earthlink.net>
Subject: [CR] A question on the book, The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles


"The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles" is much catchier than the more accurate "The Golden Age of French Bicycles"

Be that as it may, it is a wonderful book, one I keep going back to ... again and again.

As for why Brit framebuilders didn't make their own parts: I've got two conflicting theories:

(1) they didn't have to, since they had many good bikcycle parts makers supplying a huge variety of parts ... and were not averse to using imports.

(2) they couldn't charge what the top French builders were able to charge

Amir Avitzur
Ramat-Gan, Israel