Re: [CR]Weyless hubs...

(Example: Framebuilders:Jack Taylor)

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References: <A9CF4EB95BC44C44A94CA51AF3FE90FEB8A8@server.normandassociates.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 21:10:54 -0400
To: Jerry & Liz Moos <moos@penn.com>, Rich Rose <rrose@normandassociates.com>
From: "Sheldon Brown" <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Weyless hubs...
Cc: "D. Kennard" <d.kennard@home.com>, Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


Jerry Moos wrote:
>If you like the old Weyless skewers (I do) there are some very similar
>skewers currently made (or at least made in recent years) by a company
>called Timberlin. I bought several pairs a couple of years ago from
>Lickton's to use with Phil Wood hubs, which of course come without
>skewers. The skewers were quite inexpensive, yet looked totally
>appropriate with the high snoot Phil hubs. Or maybe they just seemed
>appropriate to me because they looked so much like Weyless.

I don't know what those were, but if memory serves, you can't use _actual_ Weyless skewers in anybody else's hubs, onacountta they're thicker than standard and won't fit through the axles.

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