talbot materials list

i've put together a list of materials given in Richard Talbot's book. the link is on the right side of the main page, http://bikebuilding.blogspot.com. here's the intro:

I compiled this list from Richard Talbot’s Designing and Building Your Own Framest, second edition (published 1984, 1^st edition 1979). It’s at the Library of Congress as of April 2006.

Talbot was an amateur when he did the book, with I believe one frame under his belt. It’s simpler, less professionally-oriented, and more “quick and dirty” than the Paterek Manual, according to what I’ve read on the bikelist.org archives, but I haven’t read Paterek.

Fred Parr has told the bikelist.org Framebuilders’ list that Talbot got the information for his book by “pestering” Fred at his shop. Fred alleges Talbot got at least a couple things wrong in the translation from shop practices to amateur manual.

If you find this list useful, you’ll likely feel the same way about the rest of the book. I found it a great help as I’m the target audience: a first-time amateur builder with a technical head. That said, I consider it a starting point and not gospel truth.

Send questions and comments to ethan [a t] fast50.net. Let me know if this page looks a little weird; the html is generated by MS Word.