Re: [CR]Maxi vs's Maxi-Car

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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 06:53:56 -0800
To: kurt@fineartscrimshaw.com, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Jan Heine" <heine93@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Maxi vs's Maxi-Car
cc: g.duke@civenv.unimelb.edu.au

Add to that a few things that we have learned since:

- Maxi-Car (adjustable annular bearings, oversize axles, double labyrinth seals) in fact were introduced (or at least announced) just before the war. I don't know whether any were made, or whether the first Maxi-Car (back then still called C.A.R.-Maxi) hubs were made in 1946. (Before 1939, they had been marketed by their inventor, C. A. Ripet, and by a company called CAR-Vega.)

- Maxi (cup-and-cone) hubs remained available after Maxi-Car were introduced. Maxi were very good hubs - including nice features such as screwed-in dust caps and a slot in the axle for adjusting the cones only on the non-driveside rear (leaving the axle stronger on the vulnerable driveside).

Maxi hubs were significantly cheaper than Maxi-Cars. There were a huge variety of Maxi hubs available before the war - steel, alloy, tandem, outboard rear bearings and inboard rear bearings for "modern" stepped freewheels, etc.

Later Maxi hubs used similar shells to Maxi-Cars, but different internals. At some point - perhaps when the production was sold from Etablissements Depalle around 1962, Maxi hubs were discontinued. Maxi-Cars were made until the mid-1990s.

So for the Goelands, the more budget bikes got Maxis, the best one Maxi-Cars.

Jan Heine, Seattle Editor/Publisher Vintage Bicycle Quarterly c/o Il Vecchio Bicycles 140 Lakeside Ave, Ste. C Seattle WA 98122 http://www.vintagebicyclepress.com


> >From the archives:
>
>...Maxi. Pre-dates Maxi-Car - before World War II, these
>were the preferred hubs in the French technical trials (Vintage
>Bicycle Quarterly issue 3 will cover the trials).
>
>See the flats on the cone? Maxi are standard cup and cone hubs,
>albeit very nice ones. Maxi-Car are very different.
>
>Jan Heine, Seattle
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>On 12/19/05, Geoff Duke <g.duke@civenv.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>> Reading the latest issue of VBQ I was looking attentively at the
>> Rebour drawings and descriptions of the Goeland bicycles.I noticed
>> that some of them were equipped with Maxi hubs and some with Maxi-Car
>> hubs.What is the difference? Anyone? Merry Christmas.
>> Geoff Duke Melbourne Australia
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>
>Kurt Sperry
>Bellingham WA
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>> fineartscrimshaw.com