Re: I: [CR]Campy Hi-Lo

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To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: <youngc@NetReach.Net>
Subject: Re: I: [CR]Campy Hi-Lo
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:04:24 US/Eastern

Steven:

Dale's hub is the SE (south of equator) model. Your hubs are clearly the NE model. Only Campagnolo has produced hubs that adequately address the serious stresses imposed by the Coriolis effect.

As to what to do with them, it is obvious: trickle them out one at a time on eBay.

Charlie Young Honeybrook, PA
> Dale,
>
> You now have me totally confused. When I bought my Hi-Lo front hubs, while
> on a visit to Campagnolo, I was led to believe that I had bought the full
> lot of 87 hubs ever produced. This made me wonder where you had dug up the
> picture, as I still have all hubs in my personal stash. I also noticed that
> the Q/R lever is reversed in clear contradiction to the proper technical
> instructions imparted to me. Coud this therefore be a counterfeit hub?
> perhaps a replica hub? a second generation? or a lot-to-lot variation of
> standard record?
>
> Now you say that fron HI-Lo hubs are all a hoax and that photos lie, or are
> these line drawings? What do I now do with my hubs?
>
> Steven Maasland
> Moorestown, NJ
>
> > In a message dated 7/18/2002 11:37:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > WBINGHAM@imf.org writes:
> >
> > << What would be the rational for such a hub? I can understand a Hi-Lo
> > rear, and maybe even a Hi-Lo track front (although even that I'd wonder
> > about). But a Hi-Lo road front hub? Is this for real? If so, why?
> > What is the intent of the design? Maybe someone at Campy really wanted
> > to create future weirdo collectables! >>
> >
> > Ah hem............... WAYNE!!!!!!
> > It's a joke!!
> > Ha! Gotcha!
> > That "art" is by the infamous Aldini Rossini........... (Or is it
> Rossaroni?)
> >
> > Dale Brown
> > Greensboro, NC
> > _______________________________________________
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