Re: [CR]Intesphere "Tiger Racer"

(Example: Production Builders:Cinelli)

From: <Gjvinbikes@aol.com>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 19:14:24 EDT
Subject: Re: [CR]Intesphere "Tiger Racer"
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 5/7/01 6:28:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, RALEIGH531 writes:


> Is "Tiger Racer" the brand or model name?
> It is a Intesphere brand "Tiger Racer" model.
> As to the brakes, my Peugeot has the rear brake (Mafac Racer) mounted using
> a little block with the bolt running vertically through the bridge and the
> caliper bolting onto the block. This is the original setup, not homemade.
> So two brakes are possible.

Yes, I have heard of this but not seen it. This hole is more like a fender mount hole though, I think. It is pretty thin.
> ounds like an interesting assortment of parts.
> Not sure how interesting the parts are. I defer to the more experienced list members on that. I generally toss steel cottered cranks in the dumpster, for example, though the ones with logos cut into them as spiders are neat looking - especially Humber's.

Glenn Jordan - Durham, NC