[CR] Davr Tesch built "Specialized"s

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Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 10:46:59 -0800
From: "michael fabian" <emeneff@gmail.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR] Davr Tesch built "Specialized"s


Tesch also built the off-topic, but somewhat KOF "Team Stumpjumper" mountain bike frames for Specialized also. I think this was around 1989 or so.

They were distinctive because they used a full investment-cast lug set, and a cast fork "crown" on the unicrown fork, to boot. As if that wasn't enough, they were a hot pink color. There was no missing one of those frames.

Using lugs on a mountain bike frame was sort of swimming against the tide by the early 1990's. Specialized soon went onto tig-welding and then more "exotic" materials in order to keep pace with magazine articles and the "marketplace".

Regards,
Mike Fabian
San Francisco, CA