[CR] Free: late-70s Pringle roof rack, in Seattle WA USA

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Subject: [CR] Free: late-70s Pringle roof rack, in Seattle WA USA
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 20:36:02 -0700
Thread-Topic: [CR] Free: late-70s Pringle roof rack, in Seattle WA USA
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From: "Mark Bulgier" <Mark@bulgier.net>
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Free Pringle roof rack for 4 bikes; attaches to rain gutters (i.e. will not fit most modern cars). You pick up in Seattle - it's not worth shipping. Rusty and ugly but works fine. I believe this is on topic because it's before the cutoff and they really were made for racing bikes, by a racer.

Mark Pringle, who was once one of America's top 3 road racers*, saw the cool racks the Euro team cars had, and finding nothing like them in the states, made and sold them himself. I don't know how many he made but I'd guess a hundred or two. All the cool racers in Seattle had 'em at one point, before Yakima, Thule et al. debuted.

All steel, except the rain gutter-attaching towers, which are castings he bought, maybe from Sears or some such. You take the front wheel off and clamp the front dropouts with a quick-release axle that's welded to the rack. The rear tire gets held in its tray by a toast wrap. The front wheels go in wheel forks that bolt to the rack. The forks (which have real Campy dropouts!) can be taken off the rack when not needed.

*Pringle is still the answer to the trivia question "What American placed highest ever, in the Senior Amateur Men's World Road Race Championships?" His 10th in Venezuela in 1977 just nudges Lance Armstrong's 11th, 1990 in Japan.

Mark Bulgier
Seattle WA USA