Re: [CR]Hi-E timeline? Info sought.

Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 21:02:18 -0600
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Hi-E timeline? Info sought.
References: <001601c62808$c7215e20$26fdd045@ts>
In-Reply-To: <001601c62808$c7215e20$26fdd045@ts>

Tom Sanders wrote:
> Too much to ask for, I guess. However I acquired a NOS pair of Hi-E skewers
> last night and just crawled back out of the archives after seeking to find
> out more about them and the company that made them.

Harlan Meyers started Hi-E back in the early 70s IIRC. Put those skewers on a shelf and admire them -- they're lighter than anything out there, but unless you butcher your dropouts as described in the Hi-E sheet that accompanied them, they won't hold your wheels reliably. Even if you do butcher them in the approved manner, they still have a propensity to not work.

Not bad-mouthing Hi-E -- their hubs, rims, wheels,e tc. are all very fine, but the skewers leave a lot to be desired.

CR has a page for Hi-E here:

http://www.classicrendezvous.com/USA/Hi_E.htm

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