Aldo and all,
There really have been rear hubs with a center flange. Master machinist and
former custom framebuilder Jim Merz tried this out in the 70's. I have seen
a hub but not a wheel built around one so I have no idea how this would be
laced up! Merz made a pretty faithful copy of an NR small flange hub
body--but one that had been stored near a nuclear waste dump for awhile,
with a third flange between the two normal ones. Merz had other interesting
ideas, my favorite was the Herse-oid racks he used to make complete with a
little stalk for the reflector on the back. No, he didn't use bicycle
reflectors, he bought them from the Portland Mercedes-Benz dealer.
DF
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>From: "Aldo Ross" <swampmtn@siscom.net>
>To: <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: [CR]photoalbum updates
>Date: Thu, Dec 21, 2000, 6:08 AM
>
>Thanks to Scott McCaskey, who was kind enough to let me add his pictures of
>the Campagnolo 3-piece high-flange hubset to my Campy photoalbum:
>
>http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=1225372&a=9429186
>
>and just for Holiday fun... a picture of the ultra-rare Campy 5-piece hubset:
>
>http://albums.photopoint.com/j/ViewPhoto?u=1225372&a=9429179&p=33305204
>
>Aldo "14F and falling in SW Ohio" Ross
>
>J.M. Ross
>Director of Operations
>Crossley Machinery Company, Ltd.
>Princeton, NJ