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From: reintom@rocky2.UUCP (Tom Reingold)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Cannondale frame quality
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Date: Sun, 6-Oct-85 17:31:10 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct  6 17:31:10 1985
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> Without an exception, Cannondale owners come over to
> look at the Klein and start comparing wheel stay length
> and tube diameter and weld finishes and paint finish
> and weight and color. Gary Klein invented the welded
> aluminum frame, argued its merits, and developed the
> manufacturing methods and still produces the standard
> against which the others are measured.
> 
>                 Ed Weiss

I believe you are wrong in saying that Gary Klein invented
the welded aluminum frame.  He learned to build it in a class
offered at MIT.  He was, perhaps, the first to offer it for 
sale.

                  Tom Reingold