Re: [CR]bar ends

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Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 14:57:02 -0500
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]bar ends
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In-Reply-To: <198210-220054414184051651@M2W033.mail2web.com>


kohl57@starpower.net wrote:
> Well surely in the early 1980s someone had to have taken a drill to bar
> end plugs and "lightened" them with all those tiny little holes like every
> other component on the machines back then. But titanium bits seem eminently
> sensible to me, possibly as dodgy as the original Super Record titanium
> axles, thus creating the rare and collectible "death bar plugs"

Me, I go for the superlight composite bar plugs, myself.

Corks from wine bottles, that is :-)

And depending on the vintage you select, they can even be on topic!

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA