Frame Making
This thread is very interesting, and if I might go off a little bit, please don’t be mad. In Montreal for the world championships, in 1974, on my PX-10, in the stands, having never seen track racing, met a nice American, who told me I should go to Europe and get a frame from one of the true frame makers before they retired. Well cut to 1984, and I’m in London, and visit Chas Roberts on one of his fathers frames. Even though I was working on the railroad, I had fantasy’s of building frames, and he was quite blunt that if I really wanted to apprentice, it could be done, but it was really a slog, and there was nothing healthy about the work, fumes, chemicals etc. And depending on your skill abilities, it was tough to make a living. So, back to the railroad it was, so for those that tried and did it, a great story indeed,