RE: [CR]Re: more on correct rims for 50s British bikes

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From: "Mick Butler" <pariscyclesuk@hotmail.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: RE: [CR]Re: more on correct rims for 50s British bikes
Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 23:19:43 +0000


Most things are fashion or fad driven cycling being no different. Prior to 1939 the normal wheel size in the UK was 26". Sometime after the war Dunlop amongst others who were rim makers and tyre manufactures decided to introduce the 27" rim to corner the market. This is what I have been told by the old-timers. By the early 1950's the normal British standard rim size being ridden was the 27". The 26" being virtually extinct and only ridden by a few of the old diehards. These dates are approximate. Like I said there was a transition period. I am sure some of the other Brit members will elaborate on this subject. Best wishes and be lucky. Michael Butler Huntingdon UK.


>From: CMontgo945@aol.com
>To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>Subject: [CR]Re: more on correct rims for 50s British bikes
>Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 17:31:42 EDT
>
>Michael Butler Huntingdon UK:
>
> > Sorry a mixture all the Brit stuff would have been available in 26" &
>27"
> > at
> > this time. This was at the tail end of the change over period. As for
>the
> > Continental's it depended on that particular manufacture
>
>
>Please explain this "change over period" to us neophyte Anglophiles.
>
>Craig Montgomery Tucson, Arizona