Re: [CR]question about 50's aluminum rims

(Example: Production Builders:Peugeot)

Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 16:28:13 -0700
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]question about 50's aluminum rims
References: <BC1218CC.26A45%hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk> <006f01c3cc0d$26405fa0$f40d8751@oemcomputer>


Bob Reid wrote:
>
> (cut) Much as these late 30s rims
> are light even when compared to some of Mavics more modern creations, I'd
> much rather find a pair of steel Constrictor Copper Mamba sprints - weighing
> in at massive 19oz / 538g, these were produced at the Constrictor Tyre Co's
> own factory and finished in Copper.

Bob, I have always been partial to the Constrictor Nickle Bushmaster sprints myself. Not exactly svelt at 38oz / 1076g, but they're mere tuppence and crush small rocks you occasionally encounter on the roads locally in my township, Avon-on-South-Pasadenashire. Tough to find the matching 28" x 4 3/4" tyres though and they are frightfully dear when they can be had.

Charles Tipton Smyth-Schmidt Avon-on-South-Pasadenashire, Southern California