RE: [CR](S/A quadrant, question)

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Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 09:46:30 -0500
To: classic list <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
From: "Roy H. Drinkwater" <roydrink@mac.com>
Subject: RE: [CR](S/A quadrant, question)


I think Warren's right, I typed 'quadrant' into Google image search, and on the first page was images of navigation quadrants and a S-A shifter from Sheldon's site, they're a very similar shape. There's also a Triumph Quadrant, a four-place bicycle, and this interesting history page http://www.rijwiel.net/kruisfrd.htm farther on, besides images of maps, space photos, charts, and college campuses.

Roy 'any bicycle swap meet is better than sitting at home' Drinkwater Lititz 'cold & snow?', PA


>I suspect they are called quandrants due to their resemblence to the
>navigation tool of the same name. Is the sky divided up into
>quadrants...any trained mariners out there?
>
>Warren Young
>Toronto
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>>By the way, anyone know why they are called "Quadrant"? That seems to imply
>>4-speed, eh?
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>>Mark Bulgier