Being a practicing Northwestern bike mechanic, I'll offer this idea--corks are bad. Water will find its way into anything, sealed, corked, or not. It needs to have a way out! David "Would drill a drain hole into anything from a new Trek to an old Herse" Feldman Vancouver, WA
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> 1. Corked sterrer tube (charles nighbor)
> 2. Rigida wheels and cobblestones... (Don Wilson)
> 3. Re: St. Etienne Robust (dddd)
> 4. Re: Corked steerer tube (Chuck Schmidt)
> 5. Re: Corked steerer tube (Fredrick Yavorsky)
> 6. Re: Corked sterrer tube (Warren & Elizabeth)
> 7. Re: Corked sterrer tube (Warren & Elizabeth)
> 8. Re: newbie intro plus Led Zeppelin bike (Ted
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> 9. FS: Various Parts
> 10. Campy Hoods (greg arnold)
> 11. Re: newbie intro plus Led Zeppelin bike (Don
> Wilson)
> 12. Wright saddle... (Don Wilson)
> 13. FW: Re: [CR]Disadvantages of removing
> anodizing from aluminum
> parts (nick zatezalo)
> 14. Re: Corked steerer tube (Chuck Schmidt)
> 15. Re: FW: Re: [CR]Disadvantages of removing
> anodizing from aluminum
> parts (Chuck Schmidt)
> 16. Reg pump clips...how does this work? (Jay
> Sexton)
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> Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 18:11:52 -0700
> From: "charles nighbor" <cnighbor@pacbell.net>
> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> Subject: [CR]Corked sterrer tube
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> I just obtained an early 80's Davidson Discovery
> (touring frame) 57cm
> frame and components all in excellent condition.
> Upon removing handlebar
> with stem I looked into steerer tube and it was
> closed at the bottom
> with a wine cork. Frame was sold out of the
> excellent Cupertino Bike
> Shop, CA. No rust was evident inside steerer tube.
> Some moisture in
> grease however was evident. So my question is this a
> good idea to do. I
> would be worried about cork absorbing moisture and
> rusting steerer tube
> to point of failure. Specialty in a area like
> Seattle.
> Comments please
> Charles Nighbor
> Walnut Creek, CA
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> Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 18:33:05 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Don Wilson <dcwilson3@yahoo.com>
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> Subject: [CR]Rigida wheels and cobblestones...
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> Tim Victor's recent post...
>
> "The French word pavé, taken literally, means to
> pave
> like a street or sidewalk. But those who coined the
> word weren't referring to the material that covered
> the quaint cobblestone streets of old France..."
>
> ...triggered a question in my mind. the question is:
>
> What possessed French bicycle manufacturers to build
> rims like Rigidas, which were bends waiting to
> happen,
> in a country where cobble stone streets were once
> ubiquitous? Was this some kind of Gaulist planned
> obsolescence? Or were the cobble stones less
> ubiquitous than I reckon they were in the 50s and
> 60s.
> I've been visiting since the 80s and their roads are
> fabulous now, but I have heard from several persons
> that France's post war roads were pretty rugged for
> a
> decade or two after Patton, Monty and Brad had their
> ways with her.
>
> Don Wilson
> Los Olivos, CA
>
> D.C. Wilson 805.688.8696 dcwilson3@yahoo.com
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> Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 18:54:36 -0700
> From: "dddd" <dddd@pacbell.net>
> To: "Classic Rendezvous"
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> Subject: Re: [CR]St. Etienne Robust
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> Foreign market translators, it sounds like. I used
> to break out laughing
> while reading some 1970 Japanese motorcycle service
> manuals. Straying OT
> here, but currently there's a Taiwan firm,
> presumeably making knock-off
> parts, that calls themselves "Sameness". This
> company is growing, btw.
> Robust is probably some previously un-trademarked
> name they found in a
> dictionary of translations. UO-8's were robust in
> many ways, just not quite
> all the right ones! Don't get me wrong, I love my
> '73 UO-8, but it's spokes
> and derailer clamp have proven especially fragile.
> Maybe if the makers of the Robust had given their
> export a French-sounding
> name they'd still be on the market, or... ...maybe
> not.
>
> David Snyder
> Auburn, CA USA
>
>
> Don Wilson wrote:
> > Hi, I'm staring at an old french bike from St.
> Etienne
> > called a Robust that I know is junk, but which I
> could
> > not resist because of the sheer absurdity of the
> name
> > and the one dollar price tag. What the heck is a
> BF
> > stem (no off color brand name jokes please). Bike
> is
>
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