> Now much information is available for the new generation of builders who are > picking up the > torch - mostly in the U.S., but not yet in Europe.
Well and in Japan also. Although some of the builders there are getting on in years and experiencing currency problems as Rivendell knows all to well. It is one reason the sudden popularity of certain low cost - average workmanship knock off sellers concerns me. I certainly hope demand for craft built product remains high enough so at least some of these young builders keep at it. Over the last year and a half we have already lost a few promising U.S. builders to the need for the legal tender. From what I hear, there are others, one rather prominent, who are becoming quite hard to reach lately. Could be a lot of things but money problems forcing the builder to take a job in a different business frequently turns out to be the culprit. But with today's news, let's not allow worries about tomorow distract from remembering this all time great from years past. On Sep 8, 9:21 am, Jan Heine <hein...@earthlink.net> wrote: > On Sep 8, 3:06 am, Angus <angusle...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > > Thank you for sharing this with us Jan. > > > It does feel like an era of great bicycles & people has slipped away > > from us a bit this year. > > Yes, with Ernest Csuka (Cycles Alex Singer) and Jean Desbois (Cycles > Rene Herse) no longer, we definitely lost two of the most > knowledgeable sources of information from the "Golden Age" of the > French constructeurs. Fortunately for us, these old masters have been > willing to share their knowledge in recent years, unlike the past, > where they considered it "trade secrets." I suspect if I had asked > Rene Herse in 1970 how he made his stems or why he chose certain > geometries, he wouldn't have told me... Now much information is > available for the new generation of builders who are picking up the > torch - mostly in the U.S., but not yet in Europe. > > Jan Heine > Editor > Bicycle Quarterly > 2116 Western Ave. > Seattle WA 98121http://www.vintagebicyclepress.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
