OK - I know that I'm jumping in late in the game here, but when did inch pitch die off? Enquiring minds want to know! I ask in relation to the ongoing resto of "Le Bumble Bee" (as the locals used to call it) - the odd yellow track bike from the last CR get together (I know you remember this one, Johnny). For those of you not there -
http://www.wooljersey.com/
From what I heard from D. Crowley - he first saw the bike in the late 60's, but doesn't recall what was on it at the time. A LBS owner said that track had moved away from 1" pitch by that point, but have no solid data for support. Until I can get more data from those that knew it from it's birth - I'm at least restoring it to the manner in which I got it in the late 70'/early 80's for the next event...but I know that the Sugino road crank with the Maeda cog were likely not original! The nice thing is that with the exception of a few odd bolts. I have most all of the original parts from when I got it. The bad part is that some of the few odd bolts and the rims were stolen in a garage break in. Should anyone have a Fiamme 28H red and/or yellow from the time - I'm looking!
Kirk A. Thomas Arcadia CA
At 02:24 PM 1/23/06 -0600, John T.Pergolizzi wrote:
>Joe Bender-Zanoni wrote:
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>....."Block chains were and are expensive. They feel very rigid and
>were much preferred by old trackies..."
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> Yes, my 35 some odd miles yesterday on my 1960ish chrome Cinelli
>track bike with a 24x9, (Ted, are you read'n?) makes me attest to the
>fact that it's STIFF!
>And certainly preferred for old track iron.
> When I started racing on the track in 1976, I had NO money and
>used used stuff across the board ( no pun intended), inch pitch was the
>old stuff the other guys wanted to get rid of.
> Works good.
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>John T.Pergolizzi
>Brooklyn, New York
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>165's
>The older I get, the faster I was.
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