Re: [CR]Newbee Fork Question, also talk about old bikes, Now: Dropouts

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Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 13:49:42 -0500
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Newbee Fork Question, also talk about old bikes, Now: Dropouts
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sandranian wrote:
> I thought the consensus on those dropouts were that they were Huret?
> They aren't standard Simplex, that's for sure, and I do think that is
> a Gitane...the lugs appear to be similar/identical to lugs used on
> Gitanes of the era, and they came with those cool "spiderweb"
> dropouts, (which, again, I believe are Huret, and not Simplex).

Yes, those are Huret dropouts. They're investment cast and did have some problems with breaking, so they weren't on the market for very long. But they sure look cool!

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John (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA