At least on the Atlantis, the lugs on the 2006ish-present frames were pointy and more ornate than the rounded lugs on the Atlantis I bought new in 2004.
On Dec 3, 9:00 am, Bruce <[email protected]> wrote: > They say that memory is the 1st thing to go, so correct me if mine has left > the room, but I recall the 1st issue of orange Rambouillets having fancier > lugwork than the main run, including later orange, all the blue and the final > batch of green ones. The Saluki and AHH use the same lugs afik and these have > remained unchanged since the start of Saluki. The earliest Rivs from > Waterford had very fancy Sachs designed lugs, with later Riv customs being a > bit more toned down. > > Rivs lugs are made for them in China, I read somewhere, maybe by Long Sheng? > Their design, just cast in China. Not that many lug makers around. Pascenti's > lugs are also made to his spec overseas, iirc. > > ________________________________ > From: Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery <[email protected]> > > Actually, the lugs on the Atlantis and other Japanese frames got much > more ornate toward the end. Perhaps GP thought that fancier lugs would > help justify the rapidly increasing prices during the last couple > years, or maybe the extra cost in the lugwork seemed tiny compared to > the extra cost from currency exchange. In any case, the simpler, > rounded lugs of ~2004/2005-ish were more of a middle point than an > ultimate end of the evolution of these frames. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
