RE: [CR]RE: Internally routed rear brake cable

(Example: Production Builders)

From: "Mick Butler" <pariscyclesuk@hotmail.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: RE: [CR]RE: Internally routed rear brake cable
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 10:33:51 +0000


Regarding this form of cable routing. I have seen an early Rover bicycle circa 1903 belonging to Tony Bush S.V.C.C & F.C.O.T which has the rear hub gear operating cable internally routed through the top tube. On the lightweight scene Harry Rensch used this method on some of his models from 1936 onwards. In a post war 1948 film called "A Boy a Girl and a Bike" on which Harry was the cycling advisor, there are several mentions on this type of cable routing and is part of the films plot. Armstrong at the 1948 Earls Court cycling show exhibited a model with internally routed brake and gear cables.

Best wishes and be lucky. Michael Butler Huntingdon UK.


>From: Toni.Theilmeier@t-online.de (toni theilmeier)
>Reply-To: 520061944949-0001@T-Online.de
>To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: [CR]RE: Internally routed rear brake cable
>Date: 12 Mar 2004 18:34 GMT
>
>My c1936 Granby Taperlight has got one.
>
>Toni Theilmeier, Belm, Germany.