At 5:41 PM -0400 8/20/05, Bianca Pratorius wrote:
>One of my bikes has the modern brakes that are now called dual pivot
>because the right arm pivots on the center bolt and the left pivots
>on its own side bolt. Well this is a good modern idea, but it seems
>still quite a bit less simple and elegant than the old center pull
>system which gives you two side pivots and a symmetrical
>arrangement to boot. The question is, did any manufacturer ever come
>up with a centerpull arrangement that had integral in the design its
>own pulling point, so that nothing needed to be attached to the
>headset nor the rear seatpost bolt? A quick search of my memory nor
>books I have turned up anything. Such a device could extend up from
>the center bolt the same one or two inches the common centerpull
>arrangement now has.
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