Re: [CR] Quad stays

(Example: Framebuilders:Brian Baylis)

In-Reply-To: <785957.70028.qm@web31506.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <785957.70028.qm@web31506.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 12:20:33 -0500
To: Jay Van De Velde <jaysportif@yahoo.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Mark Stonich" <mark@bikesmithdesign.com>
Subject: Re: [CR] Quad stays


These Quad Stay frames just cry out for a Humber Duplex fork.

http://gallery.me.com/seb771#100200/IMG_0062&bgcolor=black

A local builder has done some quad stay 36'er MTBs. Smaller tubes allow him to have relatively short stays using the Coker 36" wheel and tire.

At 8:25 PM -0700 6/3/10, Jay Van De Velde wrote:
>c.1899 Eagle quad stay bike, American manufacture:
>http://theracingbicycle.com/Eagle.html
>
>Jay Van De Velde
>Seal Beach,CA
>
>--- On Thu, 6/3/10, Derek Athey <devondirect@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
>From: Derek Athey <devondirect@googlemail.com>
>Subject: Re: [CR] Was: which way does the cage go?
>To: "kim klakow" <Akimbo71@gmx.net>
>Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 4:44 AM
>
>
>Hello Kim
>
>The only frame builder I know of who built frames with twin chainstays was a
>firm called Barkers of Chigwell, Essex UK. I believe I remember the name
>correctly.
>
>I also believe they patented the concept.
>
>Derek Athey
>Honiton, Devon UK
>
>On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 11:21 AM, kim klakow <Akimbo71@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know what kind of frame this is? The stay looks as if it is
>> made of two tubes.
>> kim
>>
>>
>>
>>http://velobase.com/ViewSingleComponent.aspx?ID=06070CA5-F48A-4273-B416-F1EC5E284D91&Enum=108&AbsPos=2018
> > (http://tinyurl.com/Simplex-tdf)
> >

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