Re: [CR] [Frame] WTB: Bocama "competition 83" headlugs

From: "Ben Kamenjas" <kamenjas@gmail.com>
To: "Mark Bulgier" <Mark@bulgier.net>
In-Reply-To: <9327C3B25BD3C34A8DBC26145D88A907173281@hippy.home.here>
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 00:10:24 +1000
References: <C710D3C6-6A46-4605-8388-EF2DA81E891F@gmail.com>
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] [Frame] WTB: Bocama "competition 83" headlugs

Thanks for the input Mark.

Sound good to me, they look very close indeed ; ... I'm open to anyone who has a set of those headlugs by Prugnat or BoCaMa. Fwiw, I think they were possibly the most used lugs in Australia during the early to mid 80's. Unfortunately, nobody has any left.

thanks

Ben Kamenjas Kensington, Australia

> Ben Kamenjas asked...
>
>> for a pair of Bocama "Competition 83" headlugs.
>> the same as picture below
> http://www.veloworks.com/lug_reference/bocama_gallery/pages/Bocama%27Com
> petition83%27001.html
> http://www.veloworks.com/lug_reference/bocama_gallery/pages/Bocama%27Com
> petition83%27002.html
> (http://tinyurl.com/bocama1 and http://tinyurl.com/bocama2 if those
> links wrap and don't work right)
>
> Well if Richard Sachs says those are Bocama, then who am I to argue
> (and
> I don't mean that sarcastically, he's the man). But I can't tell the
> difference between those and the lugs I have always heard called
> Prugnat
> S4.
>
> Examples:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/27880623@N05/4582139612/
> Is a Prugnat S4 set according to Keith Anderson
>
> http://www.bikebrothers.co.uk/longstaff_red_black.htm
> Has an S4 set according to bikebrothers.co.uk
>
> If you can't tell the difference either (or they're close enough),
> then
> widen your search to include "Prugnat S4" and you'll have more hits.
> Those were fairly common lugs. I have a set, but you don't want to
> buy
> them from me, my prices are too high. ;) (You can get back to me
> as a
> last resort though, if you don't find a set anywhere else.)
>
> Mark Bulgier
> Seattle, WA USA