"Mark A. Perkins" <bicyclemark@juno.com> wrote some nice stuff about Hi-E components, most of which I've snipped. I sent him a thank you, and the Eudora (my email package) suggested that my language might offend. Think it worried about this paragraph, so hope the list was not offended:
<snip> One of my favorite Hi-E components though were the spoke nipples. A pain in the back-side if you needed to true a wheel, because they didn't protrude through to the spoke side of the rim, They were aluminum, and had a hex head which was accessed from the tire-side of the rim with a special hex-socket spoke wrench. Somewhere I still have a bag of those nipples, and I still have the spoke wrench in my tool box. <snip> "Bicycle Mark" Perkins Fresno Cycling Club - Historian Fresno, California, U.S.A.
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