[CR]Re: how the Latin Series got its names

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Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 08:16:08 -0800 (PST)
From: "Peter Naiman" <hetchinspete1@yahoo.com>
To: hetchins <editor@hetchins.org>
In-Reply-To: <42175D5A.2F308D14@hetchins.org>
cc: Len Ingram <len@nutwood30.free-online.co.uk>
cc: Thomas Rawson
cc: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
cc: Len Ingram
Subject: [CR]Re: how the Latin Series got its names

Flash or anyone else in the group; Mick Butler wrote from the U.K. about the use of the word "dropout", referring to a track drpout as a track end, and that referring to it as a dropout may be incorrect. Mick, apologies if I'm interpreting your note incorrectly. Technically speaking, is a track end a dropout or not. CC'd Mick on this one so he can chime in. Maybe Richie or Jim Cunningham may have an answer.

Peter Naiman
Shorewood, WI


--- hetchins wrote:


> Y'all,
>
> There is a story ... Jack Denny supposedly went to
> the Tottenham library
> and got a latin dictionary and picked out some
> elegant sounding names. I
> do not know where this story comes from; Hugh
> O'Neill mentions it in his
> historical article reprinted at the web site.
>
> Tom is right about Six-Days; they were characterized
> by fluted seat
> tubes (to shorten the wheelbase). They could have
> been fitted with any
> lug set. I would doublecheck with Bob Freeman
> whether his track dropouts
> are original; he had a lot of work done to the
> frame. The rear bridge is
> drilled to take a brake, which would be uncommon for
> a track frame; Bob
> may have had track dropouts retro-fitted to it.
>
> Flash
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