Dear JB,
Thanks so much for helping to shed some light on this mystery of mine. I've had this hub for maybe twenty years or so kicking around various boxes of old stuff and finally I am getting some info on it.
I removed the locknuts on mine but there is no date. The axle is a quick release one and I'm pretty sure it is a replacement along with the nuts. The cones and lockwashers (!)have smaller stampings than I am used to seeing. In fact I don't ever recall seeing the lockwashers stamped with anything before.
I guess the final question I still wonder about is just why Campy would have made such a beast in the first place ? I was schooled that you can simply run a single freewheel on the cog threading of a fixed hub with no problems. By leaving off the lockring and it's threads you have a much less versatile / practical hub.
Again . . . weird,
Mike Fabian San Francisco, US
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:42:35 -0500 From: "John Barron" <jb@velostuf.com> To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Subject: [CR]RE: Campy Track hub without lockring threads Message-ID: <000001c6fb0c$462ad7b0$6501a8c0@velostuf> In-Reply-To: <MONKEYFOODPdBbauQ58000024dc@monkeyfood.nt.phred.org> Content-Type: text/plain;charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: list Message: 1
I have one of these early, no "RECORD" hubs. It has lockrings dated 1958... I doubt that they had BMX back then...
John Barron Minneapolis MN
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 15:33:31 +0100 From: Hilary Stone <hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk>
emeneff@earthlink.net wrote:
> Dear Listees,
>
> I have a sort of mystery Campy rear track hub that is looking for an
> explanation.
>
> It is a large flange "no-record" early track type hub but it has no
> stepped-down reverse threaded provision for a lockring. Weird. At
> first I thought perhaps someone might have stripped the lockring
> thread and had it removed by a machinist. But the rounded profile of
> the hub shell makes me question that. There doesn't seem like there
> was any stepped-down section at all to begin with. The flange spacing
> definitely is wider than that of a regular road hub. I have some
> photos posted on the Wool Jersey Gallery :
>
> http://www.wooljersey.com/
> jpg.html
>
>
> Its probably for a single freewheel as used on BMX...
Hilary Stone, Bristol, England
> Has anyone seen or heard of something like this ?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike Fabian
> San Francisco, CA USA