At 08:00 PM 6/16/2006, you wrote:
>On 6/16/06, Larry Osborn <<mailto:losborn2@wvu.edu>losborn2@wvu.edu> wrote:
>High probability that the hubs were made by Altenberger. The shape of the
>QR lever is quite distinctive, as are the drillings in the flanges. Poor
>drawing of the hub in the GB catalog but that QR lever is difficult to
>confuse with anything else I've ever seen. And GB and Altenberger did have
>something going together on brakes.
>Some pics of Altenberger hubs at:
><http://www.classicrendezvous.com/British_isles/Harris_Reg/R_Harris_LO_bike.htm>http://www.classicrendezvous.com/British_isles/Harris_Reg/R_Harris_LO_bike.htm
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>but sorry, I accidentally left out the pic of the QR lever. I do have one.
>These are the only Altenberger hubs I've ever seen.
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>I can't tell from the photos, did those Altenberger hubs on the Reg Harris
>have the oddly distictive siamesed circular cutouts on the hub flanges?
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>Kurt Sperry
>Bellingham WA
Yes. Scroll to the right from the pic of the rear dropout and there are four more pics. One is of the rear hub flange and shows the "cutouts". Another pic shows the "Mickey Mouse ears" on the QR skewer nut, which also appear in the hub drawing in the catalog. Note the decal of the Altenberger logo on the hub body, which also consists of two "siamese" circles. (Conjoined circles, to be politically correct, or intersecting circles to be completely boring about it). I only just now made that connection. DUHHHHHhhhhhHHHH. I usually catch on quicker than that. Or so I like to think. Another mystery solved. I can quit for today.
Working on getting some better GB / Altenberger hub pics up on a site. Larry "M-I-C.........K-E-Y....." Osborn Morgantown WV