Re: [CR] Twin tube frame

(Example: Component Manufacturers)

Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:52:46 -0800 (PST)
From: "Peter Jourdain" <pjourdain@yahoo.com>
To: Peter Brown <peterg.brown@ntlworld.com>
In-Reply-To: <000f01cbbd8f$9d9769b0$d8c63d10$@brown@ntlworld.com>
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org, crumpy6204@aol.com
Subject: Re: [CR] Twin tube frame


Hi, Peter---

Thanks so much for the links. What an incredible machine your Moorson is---lovely beyond belief. Fascinating piece by Pinkerton, too.

I know Soma has remade Lauterwassers, but, man, I wish somebody would make those Moorson adjustables again----they're absolutely wild, and the only bars you'd ever need!

Cheerio,

Peter Jourdain Whitewater, Wisconsin USA

http://www.bicyclingbackwards.com

"For here is entertainment in excelsis, the sight, the sound and the scent of things....Why cycling for joy is not the most popular passtime on earth is still a mystery to me." ---Frank J. Urry, "SALUTE TO CYCLING"


--- On Wed, 1/26/11, Peter Brown wrote:


From: Peter Brown <peterg.brown@ntlworld.com> Subject: Twin tube frame To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Cc: pjourdain@yahoo.com, crumpy6204@aol.com Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 2:31 PM

John Crump wrote:In the 'Dancing uphill' Book. The life of Charles Holland, two photos of him in the mid 1930s show his bike as a twin DOWN tube frame, one photo has a BSA chainset the other same frame with what looks like a Williams chainset. I know that Saxon made twin tube frames, BUT who made a twin down tube frame in the 1930s? Just curious, Norris any answers?  Is this what you have seen John? Pics of my 1936 Moorson twin tube at:  http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/peter_brown/Moorson/There is also an interesting article by John Pinkerton at: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~hadland/moorson.html  Peter Brown, Lincolnshire, England