Re: [CR]Hi-E and Charles Martin

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Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 20:05:25 -0400
From: "Joe Bender-Zanoni" <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Hi-E and Charles Martin
To: "Bingham, Wayne R." <WBINGHAM@imf.org>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
References: <5D7622C111F78A4C8A27817E18BBAEB701335C@mlsswn02p.WAS.INT.IMF.ORG>


I think I'm wrong about the front hub being the heavy duty hub. It is the original mid-duty hub. The tiny time trial hub is pretty fragile and should never be used with an ordinary QR. Hi-E hubs in general do not like to have high clamping loads. Harlan had "unusual" Quick release schemes like screw on skewars, cutting tools to form indentations in the dropouts (yuck) etc. My track hubs have skewars with nuts. They work. My road hubs have Pino skewars that work nicely and really match the Hi-E esthetics. If Pino and Harlan had combined with a marketing and manufacturing guy the results would have been interesting.

Joe


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bingham, Wayne R."
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 9:10 AM
Subject: [CR]Hi-E and Charles Martin



> >>>Joe B-Z wrote:
> Yep Hi-E. The heavier duty hubs like these are quite reliable, I put 40K
> miles on a set, then had them rebuilt like new. That set is from about 1980
> and had the reflective stickers (that lead to no markings).<<<<
>
> Yep. Mine have the little stickers. That probably explains why so many of them have no markings! Mine came on a bike that had all 73-ish components, so I suspect that they are early. They are laced to gold anodized Mavic (old logo) Record Du Monde De L'Heure rims and are 120 with a Regina 5sp. Alas, they have Maillard skewers. Interesting that these came on a frame with a "Charles Martin USA" head badge and no other markings. Still haven't been able to dig up any info on it. Other equipment included early Dura Ace crank, brakes (side-pull/black ano), f-der and a steel head set, PAT 73 NR r-der and a Zeus seat post. The wheel set is one of the reasons I bought the bike, but the frame still intrigues me. Some sort of long point lugs and fast-back seat stays.
>
> Wayne Bingham
> Falls Church VA