Re: [CR]digging drillium (in moderation though) --was about the solidflange p reviously

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Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 20:42:57 -0600
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]digging drillium (in moderation though) --was about the solidflange p reviously
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tom.ward@juno.com wrote:
> There's documentation of the occasional home-drilled levers and
> whatnot at least back to the late '60s, and while I think of it as
> more typically a racing thing, "ah has" to rock back on muh heels and
> angle a thumb back toward some '70s factory drillium that has a
> touristic bent--I've got a Stronglight 105 triple with factory
> drilled rings over there on that wall back there (sadly, still
> hanging on a peg). I think that goes back early enough in the
> seventies to be almost an extension of the sixties--at least that's
> how I justify it in my mind--where, aesthetically speaking, it is
> usually somewhere around 1965, plus or minus a few years (see
> postscript). Okay, okay '75 or '76 for the 105, I believe, but you
> know what I mean.

I remember back in the late 70s when I went to buy a 28T ring for a Stronglight 99 triple crank I was installing on my touring bike, I was sent a factory-drilled 28T ring! :-)

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA