[CR]Holes in Chainstays (Was: What make that Confente worth so much?)

Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 15:25:31 -0400
From: "Steve Freides" <steve@fridayscomputer.com>
Organization: Friday's Computer.com
To: Classic Lightweights <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <20010617.140131.-296595.1.richardsachs@juno.com>
Subject: [CR]Holes in Chainstays (Was: What make that Confente worth so much?)

I _did_ ride today, with two friends, on a motley assortment of old-but-not-really-vintage bikes, all fitted with fixed gears. A question for you all: After riding in the pouring rain, when I happened to lift the bike so that the front wheel was up in the air and the rear wheel was still on the ground, quite a bit of water emerged from holes that had been purposefully drilled in the chainstays just in front of the dropouts. Is this sort of hole normal? Wise? It seems quite wise to me but I don't recall seeing it on too many vintage bicycles. How else would that water escape?

Steve "on a Bianchi Special 43x17" Freides

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