Re: [CR]What do you call this part? Tandem, "dummy-brake-thingies"?

Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 03:04:40 +0100 (BST)
From: "wilc" <cherrycycle1@yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [CR]What do you call this part? Tandem, "dummy-brake-thingies"?
To: "Anderson, Robert" <randerson2@grey.com>
In-Reply-To: <61BA0DAB29D0734EB915D47BEB0226FE01E586BC@ex-777-01.ggg.grey.global>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

hi, these are Honking handles for the purpose you state, but also used on fixed wheel bikes where only a front brake was used and the cyclist rode on the hoods. willie carton from a more spring like COLERAINE N. IRELAND

"Anderson, Robert" <randerson2@grey.com> wrote: Greeting CR listers,

I have in my posession a pair of aluminum knobs with handlebar clamps and gum rubber hoods that read "Dia-Compe." I suppose that they are dummy brake lever bodies? hoods? for tandem stokers, but what exactly are they called? I assume that these are on-topic, but only cause they look so "non-ergonomic."

Would one of you kind folks please help fill this gap in my cycling vocabulary?

Oh yeah, a link to an image might help.

http://home.earthlink.net/~adelphi368/images/diacompe.jpg

Thanks, Rob Anderson Brooklyn, NY

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