[CR]RE: Classicrendezvous Digest, Vol 9, Issue 10

(Example: Framebuilders:Jack Taylor)

From: "Mark Petry" <mpetry@bainbridgeisland.net>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2003 15:43:20 -0700
In-Reply-To: <CATFOODll7fnp3eEHJt00001968@catfood.nt.phred.org>
cc: Jgrome@aol.com
Subject: [CR]RE: Classicrendezvous Digest, Vol 9, Issue 10

I have 2 rear wheels built for me by Bill Bryant in that low dish configuration, and after 20+ years of riding they are still true as can be!

The narrow chain - somewhat stiffer laterally than the Regina - plus the ultra 6 freewheel was a significant breakthru in precise shifting, and a step that I don't think is mentioned in "the dancing chain". By the way, I recently visited Jeff Groman's new shop and saw 2 copies of "the dancing chain" for sale, still in the shrink wrap, so if anybody's jonesing for a copy, Jeff has them!

Now another topic - maybe it's my ADD kicking in - but Dan, your best bet on the 5 speed campy axle is ebay seller "wwcycles" His online manner ain't great but he has the axles for I think $12 and you get 2 new cones and all the spacers & locknuts too!

===================================================== Mark Petry 206.618.9642 Beautiful Bainbridge Island, WA mpetry@bainbridgeisland.net

===================================================== Life is tough when you commute on a Magnum Opus =====================================================

>>
      >>I would like to add that the development of the Sedis Sport made a
      >vastly
      >>underrated contribution to modern lightweight bicycles=2E
      >>
      >>The Regina Oro chain worked on the racers corncobs but the narrower
      >Sedis
      >>chain enabled freewheel folks to think of more cogs=2E With the lock
      >nut
      >>dimension increasing only 10 mm more, one could have double the cogs
      >on a
      >>modern cog set=2E I am not saying that the reasonably priced Sedis
      >sport was
      >>the "without which there is none=2E" However, thinking of dominoes
      >we might
      >>notice how the narrower crisp shifting Sedis chain had a
      >contributing role
      >>in how the entire drive train has changed, as more cogs became the
      >norm=2E
      >>
      >>1 Rear derailleur changed to enable the inner pulley plates to
      >get closer
      >>to the spokes=2E The rear derailleur stopped looking like traditional
      >Simplex
      >>and Campagnolo and now like Shimano with Sutour's contribution of
      >the slant
      >>parallelogram=2E
      >>2 Front derailleur cages are contoured to aid in shifting instead
      >of flat
      >>plates
      >>3 Indexing came and eventually integrated shifting and braking
      >levers=2E
      >>4 Front chain wheels have become thinner, shaped, and pinned to
      >assist in
      >>shifting=2E
      >>
      >>Some of those things may not be looked on as improvements but the
      >difference
      >>made for"In Time line" touring was significant and positive=2E I
      >remember the
      >>day I unboxed a Suntour 13 x 32 freewheel that had 6 cogs all in the
      >space
      >>of a 5 speed freewheel=2E I built a boom proof low dish rear wheel
      >using a
      >>126 OLD hub=2E It was mated to a TA cyclotourist triple 52 x42 x32, a
      >Shimano
      >>DeOre road rear derailleur and a modified Shimano DeOre road front
      >>derailleur that gave me an ultra wide range ratio that was from 27
      >to 108=2E
      >>Not to mention I never missed a shift for 20 years in the combined
      >years
      >>that I and then my brother in law used it=2E
      >>
      >>Incredible=2E
      >>
      >>Howard Darr
      >>Clymer PA
      >>