Toni, I slightly disagree with Hugh on this one I always thought the fashion for these fixed/free hubs started on the Continent in the very late 1930's. Think the manufactures who made them first were definitely Excelto, Tabucchi, Simplex and possibly Normandy. The craze for this style of hub really took off in the 1940's and peaked in the 1950's on both sides of the channel. There were also some time trial frames made in the late 50's and early 1960's in the UK which were spaced out for these fixed/free hubs. The frames follow the style of road-path with track ends and road fork's, mudguard clearence, no braze-ons. If you look in the "Comic" (Cycling) from 1960 or 61 you will see many riders pictured on this type of frame in time trials. Where are they all now? Interesting term "flip-flop it's a sandal in the UK you know the rubber type you wear on the beach with the single strap that's held on by your big toe. Mick Butler Hunts. UK.
--- Toni Theilmeier <toni.theilmeier@t-online.de>
wrote:
> During my recent French wanderings I found an old
> wreck of a racing
> cycle which I broke for parts. Upon dismantling the
> rear wheel today
> under the crust of dirt I found a Campag steel
> barrel hub. Funny thing
>
> is it´s double sided; one side´s fixed, the other
> for a multiple
> freewheel. Is that unusual or have I just not been
> attentive enough in
>
> the past?
>
> Regards,
> Toni Theilmeier, Belm, Germany.
>
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Thats all for now. Keep those wheels spinning, in your memories if not still on the road. Be lucky Mick Butler Huntingdon UK.
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