Re: [CR]Prior hubs with riveted large flanges

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing:Falck)

From: <RaleighPro531@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 07:53:51 EST
Subject: Re: [CR]Prior hubs with riveted large flanges
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 2/23/2002 11:24:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, mark@bulgier.net writes:


> OK, the pics I took of the Prior hubs are up, at:
> http://bulgier.net/pics/bike/Parts/Prior_Hubs/

Thanks for the photos Mark. Not to state the obvious: but they started out as regular 36 hole small flange hubs with the flanges than riveted on? It appears they end up being larger than a Campy or Normandy large flange? I noticed the front hub has 18 rivets on one side but only 9 on the other. Any idea why? This could be a nice little cottage industry for someone. Take your dull boring small flange hubs and turn them into something nice! (Yes, I know, a matter of taste) But as in most things bicycle I imagine the "bolt circle" of the spoke holes was different from brand to brand so you couldn't make just one size.

Pete Geurds
Douglassville, PA