Old 08-14-07 | 04:18 PM
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Rob Burkhart
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I briefly met Chris in the mid-80's just as he was getting out of frame building (he seemed pretty burned out and apparently wasn't making much money). He had a shop out in Goleta (next to Santa Barbara).

One note: the "Cielo" frames were actually made by Chris King, not Mike Celmins. My first nice road bike was a Cielo (with the aero Dura Ace gruppo). Chris also made the frames for the Centurion racing team (an early 80's US road team that included Kent Bostick, Thurlow Rogers and others). Mike Celmins made frames under his own name (I also owned one of those) and made Rory O'Reilly's kilo bike for the 1984 Olympics. (I happened to stop by Mike's shop just as he was reluctantly applying the "Huffy" stickers to the frame).
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