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Originally Posted by nlerner
Well, based on those gross over generalizations without any supporting evidence that he offers in that piece, I think Maynard G. Krebs will have more credibility than Maynard Hershon before long. Particularly this:



Without slighting current framebuilders--and many a fine one there are--that's complete nonsense.

Neal
Unless he's talking about Baylis, Gordon, Sachs, or one of today's top custom bicycle builders, he's full of baloney. If he is, comparing one of those to Cinelli or Hetchins, he is comparing apples to oranges. Compare just about any 70's mass-production builder's lug work to any of today's mass-produced steel frames and....

hold on.

What? Well somebody must still mass produce steel frames outside of India. Oh. OK. Dawes you say? Is that it?

Case closed.
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