Or, more plausibly, a marketing lie. The story doesn't make much sense: "(a) graduation project of a well known frame maker in east bay. Needless to say, the builder passed". So, some (eventually) well-known East Bay builder studying framebuilding (where? with whom?) in the mid-70s. The prominent framebuilders in the East Bay in the mid-70s were Albert Eisentraut and Bernie Mikkelsen, neither one of whom needed to pass muster with a teacher at the time. "Beautiful lug work, excellent workmanship by Kristofer." Reasonable lugwork, but not in the style of either Eisentraut or Mikkelsen. And the only framebuilder named "Kristofer" I can find is Kristofer Henry of 44bikes in New Hampshire - 20 years too young, and he only does mountain bikes.
In the absence of an actual name of an actual "well known frame maker in the east bay", I call shenanigans. Somebody found a huge (and therefore presumably custom) frame rusting behind some Sonoma County barn, and fantasized a story to justify a 100%-plus price increase. Peter Adler who's seen the work of a lot of East Bay framebuilders in Berkeley, CA/USA On Wednesday, October 8, 2014 1:08:37 PM UTC-7, Tonester wrote: > > Well "east bay builder" would likely be one the Eisentraut mob or the man > himself... >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
