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Small word to be sure, Mike Fraysse content..
 

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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19200
Location: PDX

5/13/14 5:56 PM

Small word to be sure, Mike Fraysse content..

So I buy a down tube cable stop on ebay. Bid, win, pay, get it. Bolt not the right one, so I go to send a message to square things up, only to see what I missed when I bid/paid et al.

Seller is Mike Fraysse, who I know since I was 14-15 from the Ridgefield Park Bike shop which I got all my gear from as a kid. Including the last one in the 70s, a chromed 531 lugged frame made in the frame shop by Cuevas [the son], so I was told back when. ;).

Had it until 1979 probably. My first real road bike build @ 16 yrs old. Cab you tell by the short rear brake cable/housing. ;)

So I called him and talked [listened] for quite while, LOL. Funny, last saw him late 90s out in Port Jervis area...

Funny also, was that the Cosmic Wheel that wound up in the same location was my go shop in the 90s with my cycling rebirth...

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dddd
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3345
Location: NorCal

5/14/14 3:23 PM

I never knew about any of those New Jersey cycling honchos when I lived in NY all those years until 1991.
But I ended up with a nice Francisco Cuevas bike and have also ordered items from Mike off of Ebay.

Others from that area who made bikes I ended up with include Guiseppe Limongi, Guiseppe Marinoni and "Paris Sport" (Vic Fraysee, with frames made by Limongi, Cuevas or Dave Moulton).

This also reminds me that I recently bought a very old wool jersey with "Schwinn Somerset" lettering.

-----Taking a break here from replacing the rotten parts of my deck this week, tho seems like there isn't all that much of the original structure left to save.
I knew that all the woodpecker's hammering was an ominous signal, and the huge bird actually made the damage a lot easier to see.-----

Also, I read that Cuevas had a frame-building career that spanned some 65 years, from Europe to Argentina to the US. Not sure if he also may have retired to Canada as did Limongi and Marinoni. Only during his final years did any of his frames bear his own name though.
Unbelievably, a bike-repair shop sold me my mint Cuevas with Super Record gruppo for only $250. LOL, maybe the original owner couldn't pay his tune-up bill?

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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
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5/14/14 4:08 PM

"I knew that all the woodpecker's hammering was an ominous signal"


They were after the insects in your wood. They don't peck for nothing usually. ;)

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dddd
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5/16/14 2:23 PM



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