Originally Posted by
Mad Honk
Doug, I remember a bit of that from my time as service manager at Bicycle Garage in Indy. But that was in 1981 and I've forgotten a lot of those days! I had a repaint of a Plantenga from Ft. Wayne, that I rode for a while, and lost in a house fire. We would braze up track frames and then test them at the Velodrome with no paint on them and get all sorts of Hades from some of the purists riding there. But it was Friday night racing. Thanks, Dave
Verktyg, What strikes me as odd about this frame is the braze on cable guides on the BB, and three cable bridges on the top tube. Perhaps they were added by Keith to the original frame before painting as Doug suggests.
It was common practice for guys like Kieth and myself to do an alignment and add/subtract braze-ons before doing the repaint. Frames just after the bike boom starting around 1970 didn't have many braze-ons or were very well aligned. I'm sure between the 2 of us we did hundreds. I helped Kieth get started building and sold him some equipment including my original sandblaster. Later he focused more on paint jobs than building - especially after he moved out west.
Since I have your attention do you remember a bicycle repair guy that worked out of a step van somewhere in the Indy and B-town area? I think he set up at the Hilly Hundred sometimes. I think the name of his business was Dr something. I don't remember either his name or the name of his business. I sold him one of my earliest fixtures and wondered whatever happened to him.