Hey! My message got truncated! It was supposed to end with: " I am hardly an expert on this topic.. Would someone more knowledgeable please elucidate?" Dale Brown 1410 Mill Street Greensboro, North Carolina USA 336.274.5959 http://www.cyclesdeoro.com http://www.classicrendezvous.com -----Original Message----- From: oroboyz@aol.com To: tom_s_dalton@yahoo.com Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Tue, 1 May 2007 1:17 PM Subject: [CR]Was Odd Mavic headset now "JPR"
IIRC, that headset in a few variations (and maybe other stuff) was originally designed and sold as a "JPR" which is Jan Routens shop. The first versions used some sort of rubber compression rings to jamb itself tight rather than lock rings being plz. elucidate? Dale Brown Greensboro, North Carolina USA
-----Original Message----- From: tom_s_dalton@yahoo.com To: oroboyz@aol.com Sent: Tue, 1 May 2007 12:53 PM Subject: Re: [CR]Odd Mavic headset at a well-known auction site
I don't understand. What is JPR? FYI, I
oroboyz@aol.com wrote: Looks like the missing link as JPR morphed into Mavic licensing...
Haven't a clue about alloy races?
Dale Brown Greensboro, North Carolina USA
-----Original Message----- From: tom_s_dalton@yahoo.com To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Tue, 1 May 2007 10:01 AM Subject: [CR]Odd Mavic headset at a well-known auction site
There is a French threaded Mavic headset up on Ebay, ending soon. It looks
quite different from the examples sof this style of Mavic headset that I have
seen previously.
Apparently, it is all alloy, with no pressed in steel race inserts. How
could this possibly last? Might it be a "for show only" prototype cranked out
for a bike show, before production was really begun? It also seems to be
unused, but quite corroded, which suggests that it may not have been anodized.
All the examples I've seen were very nicely anodized. In fact, almost every
Mavic part I can recall seeing was anodized, other than a few hubs. The lack
of anodizing makes me wonder if it was not regular production. Finally, I'll
speculate that if Mavic were going to do a pre-production prototype, it would
be in the domestic thread spec. http://ebay.com/
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