Originally Posted by
Hudson308
BTW, all powdercoat is NOT created equal.
+1; this is what I was referring to earlier, about the thickness. Even on a "production" * frame, it makes a big difference visually. Thanks for the pics, they make that very clear.
* Re "production"
Originally Posted by
Salamandrine
It is a production bike.
"Production" meant something very different in the late '70s, in a pole shed in a small town in Wisconsin. These frames were hand built by craftsmen. In today's "production" facilities, the employee break room is probably bigger than the pole shed in which the subject bike was built.