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 Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 9:32 am |
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| vanhelmont |
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| | | | | | | | | Nice Link | | | | | |
| Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 2:25 pm |
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| verktyg |
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Thanks for the link.
The owner of my favorite LBS told me of his visit to the Gitane factory in the 1970s. He said that there was a big guy with a very large rubber mallet who visually inspected the frames after brazing. He'd give the ones that were out of alignment a whack with the rubber mallet and send them on to painting.
From my experience assembling some of those early Gitanes i can beleive what he said.! 
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| Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 12:19 am |
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| Gtane |
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Thanks for posting. Very interesting indeed.
I very much like the era that the book relates to, just prior to the early 80's, and the emergence of new technologies, styles, designs and riders.
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