Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 2,130
Likes: 1,513
From: Medford MA
Bikes: Ron Cooper touring, 1959 Jack Taylor 650b ladyback touring tandem, Vitus 979, Joe Bell painted Claud Butler Dalesman, Colin Laing curved tube tandem, heavily-Dilberted 1982 Trek 6xx, René Herse tandem
Standard bike-boom rules apply to these Holdsworth CBs. There are some higher-end ones that are pretty good - anything made of butted 531 with forged dropouts. The one I have is such, but sadly the brazing is subpar so the frame's broken twice. Lately it's held together though, and it does ride nicer than most bikes I've been through. Like an old Trek from the same era.
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Owner & co-founder, Cycles René Hubris. Unfortunately attaching questionable braze-ons to perfectly good frames since about 2015. With style.