At 08:32 1/25/2001 -0500, Steve Freides wrote:
>Is anyone out there actually regularly riding wooden rims, or would
>anyone care to offer a reason *why* no one is doing so?
>
>-S-
To me, this should be resolved into finer-scale questions for which I'd also love answers:
1) do wood rims withstand caliper brakes? What friction material was used - leather or rubber?
2) "wood" rims can be taken as meaning "All-Wood," which look like old-fashioned tennis rackets, usually with laminated construction. Just beautiful. For the era I like best (60s) there are also wood-filled sew-up rims with Aluminum exteriors. I have a pair of Weinmann track rims built this way.
Harvey Sachs