If you were to have bought it in North Beach, they might have been English with an Italian accent.
K.R. Bennett Pleasant Hill, CA (but looking out my office window at North Beach at the moment)
From: Mark Buswell|SisuHome <mark(AT)sisuhome.com> Subject: Re: [CR] Period correct?: English Vs. Italian hub threading Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 15:47:13 -0700
Jerrry, thanks for your response.
English and Italian freewheels and hubs seem to be compatible, no problem - I get that.
To clarify: If I were to have bought my Ciocc brand new in 1981, would it have had English or Italian threaded hubs?
Mark Buswell San Francisco, CA
On Aug 30, 2006, at 3:33 PM, Jerome & Elizabeth Moos wrote:
> I would do it without hesitation. English and Italian FW thread
> are sufficiently compatible that there is no problem if you don't
> install and remove FW's unusually frequently. Plus English FW's
> are much easier to get than Italian now, at least in the US, and I
> think ISO is closer to English than Italian, not that there is much
> variation among any of them. But maybe the real Italian purists
> would object to an English FW.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Big Spring, TX
>
> Mark Buswell|SisuHome <mark(AT)sisuhome.com> wrote:
> Newbie question with requiring what I think is a quick answer:
>
> Is it 'correct' or 'best practice' to put a wheelset with English-
> threaded Campy hubs on... say an early eighties Ciocc? Were Italian
> threaded hubs still the norm for such a bike at the time? Or had/did
> English threaded hubs take over by this time?
>
> I have read in the archives about compatabilities between thread
> types but couldn't find anything that answered this question.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Mark Buswell
> San Francisco, CA
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