[CR] Was: Match Bicycle Co built tourer. Now: Tim Isaac

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To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 2010 07:54:34 -0400
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From: <oroboyz@aol.com>
Subject: [CR] Was: Match Bicycle Co built tourer. Now: Tim Isaac


Tim is a very nice guy; I worked with Trek way back when he was brought in to design their bikes and oversee production. That should have been late 1970s, 1980-ish? He was at ABG (Litespeed, etc.) in Chattanooga but that was a few years ago and I know he had moved on from that situation.

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-----Original Message----- From: Brian Samson <brsamson@telus.net> To: Classicrendezvous@Bikelist.Org <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Thu, Jun 3, 2010 1:54 am Subject: Re: [CR] Cirque preview - Match Bicycle Co built tourer.

Last year I bought a late 70s T S Isaac frame on ebay. I searched for Tim Isaac on the internet and eventually found some contact info for his current business in China (camera parts I think). I sent him an email and to my surprise he replied within about a half hour. He seemed very friendly and was able to tell me what all the numbers stamped in my frame set meant. It's a very nice frame too.

Brian Samson Vancouver, BC, Canada

On 2-Jun-10, at 7:00 PM, Jim Merz wrote:
  
> Two comments. Does anyone know where Tim is? I build touring bikes for
> Beckman back in the Merz Mfg. days. He made really nice bags.
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> Jim Merz
> Big Sur CA
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> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Michael Schmidt <mdschmidt56@verizon.net> >wrote:
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>> Back in the 90's, Match Bicycle's Tim Issac took on a request from >> Bruce
>> Gordon's former collaborator, Robert Beckman to build a top shelf >> heavy
>> duty