Re: [CR]Re: rarest of rare - Campy LoHi front hub

From: "Diane Feldman" <feldmanbike@home.com>
To: <Lsquaredb@aol.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <16.a0d891b.27ded4cd@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: rarest of rare - Campy LoHi front hub
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:15:22 -0800

No, it was developed for the Little 500 in Bloomfield, IN. It was a cue taken from Indianapolis race cars where axles used to be of different lengths on different sides of the cars for the unidirectional corners of the Brickyard.

David Feldman

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Subject: [CR]Re: rarest of rare - Campy LoHi front hub

> The Hi-Lo font hub was developed for Liechtenstein team in the 1972 Olympics.
> The idea was to try to compensate for the interaction of the rotating front
> wheel and the Coriolis effect due to the Earth's rotation. In the nothern
> hemisphere, the wheel should be mounted with the high flange on the left
> side. In the southern hemisphere, the wheel should be mounted with the high
> flange on the right.
>
> Leonard Bulger
> Ann Arbor, MI