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From: leimkuhl@uiucdcsp.CS.UIUC.EDU
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Subject: Re: Cure for Squeaky Brakes
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Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 12:49:00 EDT
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/* Written 10:22 pm  Sep 23, 1985 by kehoe@reed.UUCP in uiucdcsp:net.bicycle */


Buying a bicycle: Cannondale have the best frames (except for
Gary Klein's frames); also look at Bridgestone bicycles.
-- 
"Why my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out
they are another's."  -- Susanna Martin, executed for witchcraft.
Dave Kehoe   tektronix!reed!kehoe   (503) 230-9454
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Is that why Cannondale's recalling their forks?  These frames look
like slop, too, with no effort made to fill or polish the welds.  It
seems to me Cannondale just runs the tubes under a torch and smothers
everything in Imron.

If you buy a cheap production bike like the Cannondale, you can't
expect the kind of careful "total job" construction and careful
parts selection that you'll find on a top quality production bike.

As for Bridgestone frames, if you like the idea of your frame being
brazed by 16 different low-paid workers in a monster factory in 
Taiwan, this is the frame for you!

Klein frames do have excellent reputation, but they cost about the
same as a top quality, low-temp. silver-brazed steel frame, which just
goes to prove there ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

-Ben Leimkuhler


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