I remember seeing the mag hubs but it may have been at a show. Poor design with the "E" clip on the axle as it will set up an stress point. Steven Willis 1778 East Second Street Scotch Plains NJ 07076 908-322-3330 http://www.thebikestand.com
<classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 4:16 AM Subject: [CR]Re: Question about Avocet
> I don't think Avocet ever manufacturered anything. Most major components
were made by Ofmega including cranks, hubs, pedals and I think headsets.
The saddles were Italian also (Selle Italia?). Perhaps Avocet had some role
in designing these products, like the excellent women's saddles - my wfe's
favorite saddle is still the Avocet Women's Touring II. I presume it was
Ofmega which was to manufacture Avocet's celebrated bit of "vaporware", the
Avocet Model III hubs with titanium axles and magnesium bodies. These were
heavily advertised but never materialized. I don't know that whole story,
but perhaps Ofmega produced some prototypes but encountered high failure
rates in testing them. One imagines that thin magnesium flanges might fail
easily at the spoke holes, and I think Campy had alreay given up on their
short-lived titanium hub axles about this time,
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Houston, TX
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> Bikerdaver@aol.com wrote:
> I know Avocet was in business in the 1970s selling parts and that they may
have "subbed out" the actual manufacture of their parts, including the once
ubiquitous Avocet cycling computers, but where were they from? France?, USA?
> I have also seen Avocet seatposts (very kool looking), pedals, shoes,
cranksets (made by ofmega?) saddles, hubs and toeclips, but what ever
happened to them? they seemed to be reasonable parts. Did they spread
themselves too thin? get bought out by someone else or ?? Any info would be
most helpful. I noticed that the CR site doesn't list them anywhere that I
can find, or did I miss their page?
> cheers-
> Dave Anderson
> Cut Bank MT