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Originally Posted by John Rogers
When my daughter was racing in the late 70's and through the 80's she had a pair of bikes made by Bill Holland Cycles in San Diego. One was a road racer the other a track bike and they were the first very small frame (she was 5'0") that could use regular sized wheels. She won a bunch of state and national championships on those and I still have the black lines on our short side of the house concrete slab where I would measure her roll out.
I think Bill is still making steel frames and also now has titanium (I had one, very light) and some carbon models.
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Bill Holland is a hell of a builder. Joe Bell painted lots of his frames. He painted one of my old frame (not a Holland). I would kill to have a Holland ti bike. Instead, I bought a Merlin Superlight on the used market sometime ago. Since the the new ti frames back then was way out of reach for a racing cyclist or bum, I raced Cannondales at 450 bucks a frame discounted from my club. If I crash it, it cheap enough to just buy another.