Re: [CR]Teledyne questions and appeal

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Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 18:29:40 -0800
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Teledyne questions and appeal
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Jerry Moos wrote:
>
> Sounds like the five speed Winner on the Teledyne now is correct, but an
> Ultra-6 would be a bit too new. That is as I suspected, I don't remember
> using an Ultra-6 myself until about 1980. It appears the the Blackburn cage
> is a bit too new also. I could use a new but retro Ale chromed steel cage
> or perhaps use a handlebar mounted bottle cage. The bar mounted cage would
> aviod any further damage to the Teledyne decals from cage clamps as Titans
> did not have bottle cage brazeons. However, the bar mounted cage will
> obscure the cool engraving on the SR World Champion bars. Decisions,
> decisions.

I think it is important (only if this is important, of course) to know that these bikes were _the_ cutting edge for a very short time in the mid-1970s and as such would have been outfitted with the cutting edge parts of the same period. They would not have a steel cage or a handlebar mounted cage. As Dave already mentioned, they would be outfitted with some pretty esoteric parts. A lot of the ones I saw in Southern California had a Huret Jubilee rear derailleur for instance (still the lightest rear derailleur). The other thing to remember is that Teledynes would have a _real_ mix of parts, but above all, they would be the lightest parts of the time (whether or not they were any good, of course). The only point of these bikes was weight after all.

Joe Kossak had a great series of articles on components (light weight and otherwise) in Bike World in the mid-70s that you should read.

Chuck Schmidt
South Pasadena, California