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Finally got myself a nos Hot Heart
1mancity2:
Small world I knew Julian was always gonna make money but he is loaded already :daumenhoch:
JOO:
Do i know you?
StellaAtoiz:
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MartyC:
The wholesaler in question was Ron Kitching in Harrogate, their warehouse burnt down many years ago.
There are some significant manufacturing differences between these and the Tange made Kuwahara frames, most notably the quality of welding of the rear tiangle. Tange would pre-fab front and rear ends and supply "kits" to other companies to finish the process locally, back in the 80's it was a good way of avoiding high import duties on finished products. The lower quality rear end suggests that these have and the fact they have not been chromed or painted were probably the same build process, kits finished elsewhere and not in the Tange factory.
monkian:
To my eye's the back end of ET's look pretty similar in terms of quality (some pics in the 1st BW link) ???
I also wonder if Tange would have sent out stamped BB's if not at least part of the frame was built by them?
Tube kits would have been suppield to other companies though so who knows :laugh:
Here's the links to the BW threads:
http://www.burnerworldforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php't=29563
http://www.burnerworldforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php't=29226
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