Re: [CR]Fwd: GB catalog , now GB hubs

Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:00:06 -0700
From: "Kurt Sperry" <haxixe@gmail.com>
To: "Larry Osborn" <losborn2@wvu.edu>
Subject: Re: [CR]Fwd: GB catalog , now GB hubs
In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.0.20060616160401.01e44c28@gwpop.wvu.edu>
References: <6.1.2.0.0.20060616160401.01e44c28@gwpop.wvu.edu>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

On 6/16/06, Larry Osborn <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
> 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.

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?

Kurt Sperry Bellingham WA

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