[CR]attaboy Norris - and looking for brake blocks

(Example: Bike Shops)

Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 07:04:46 -0800 (PST)
From: "John Barry" <usazorro@yahoo.com>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <8C9EDCEB2E95A8E-90-3FDA@webmail-da02.sysops.aol.com>
Subject: [CR]attaboy Norris - and looking for brake blocks

It sounds like Dale is giving carte blanche to post an attaboy. :) I heartily concur. Nearly every one of Norris' contris is either a spellbinding walk down memory lane, or a tantalizing adventure. Norris, you need to write a book.

This helped to put me in mind that I have half a box of Fibrax 245 brake pads, which I'd like to use on one of my older British bikes that still has steel rims. The problem I have, is that these pads require a very distinct set of brake blocks - longer and narrower than what is typically found on vintage bikes.

If anyone has a set of blocks (I'd like to get up to 4 from my present inventory of 0) they'd be willing to part with, please contact me off list. I'm willing to trade for them, or to purchase outright.

Thanks in advance,

John Barry
Mechanicsburg, PA, USA


--- oroboyz@aol.com wrote:


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> Good Lord, Norris, WERE YOU ABLE TO LOCATE THAT
> BIKE? The suspense is killing me!!!!? Ha ha!
> (Hey gang, doesn't Norris write the greatest stuff?
> Eh?)
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> Dale Brown
> Greensboro, North Carolina USA
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> From: Norris Lockley <norris.lockley@talktalk.net>
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Sent: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 8:32 am
> Subject: [CR]Hugo Koblet - the 'Pedaler of Charm'
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> Forty-three years ago last Friday, on the 2nd
> November 1964, Hugo Koblet
> died in a dreadful car crash when his Alfa Romeo
> left the road and h
> urtled into a pear tree. He was killed instantly,
> having suffered mult
> iple injuries. Was it an accident or suicide?
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> Like many fans of continental road racing I have
> only ever thought of Ko
> blet as the handsome, elegant Swiss racing cyclist
> who rode his La Perle bi
> ke to victory in the 1951 Tour de France. The
> instantaneous picture th
> at my mind always conjures up when his name is
> mentioned is of Koblet, a "b
> oyau" wrapped around his shoulders, his "maillot"
> decorated with the Helvet
> ian white cross..combing his blond wavey hair. I
> think that there is even a
> sepia picture somewhere in one of the old "But et
> Club" magazines, showing
> Koblet, sitting up at the front of the peloton,
> combing his hair.
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> Coincidence played an interesting role in my recent
> stay in France. On o
> ne Thursday I was picking up an early 80s Lejeune
> bike from a second-hand w
> arehouse, when I decided to browse through the
> book-shelves to search out a
> nything old books on cycling. I was in luck when I
> noticed the brown spine
> of a slimmish volume, bearing just the words "Hugo
> Koblet", and then in muc
> h smaller print "Jean-Paul Olivier" now better known
> as the historian of th
> e Tour de France. Two days and several chapters of
> the book later. I was to
> find myself huddled up in the front seat of a
> lumpy old Renault van,
> equipped with a squeaky-voiced SatNav system, being
> driven to investigate
> a bike that was claimed to be that very same La
> Perle that Hugo Koble
> t had used to ride to victory in that 1951 Tour de
> France.
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> As my chauffeur, Lorenzo, but better known as
> "rocvale" on USA Ebay, thr
> eaded the vehicle along busy roads skirting the
> eastern outskirts of Paris,
> hurling abuse at the TomTom's shreaks every time it
> located a speeding cam
> era, I sat back and tried to conjure up those mental
> images of that 1951 Ju
> ly edition of "Miroire de Cyclisme" and very
> importantly the details of THA
> T best known of all La Perles that was about to be
> revealed to my "co
> llaborateur" -in-chief and myself "tres
> prochainement".
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> Yes..Koblet rode a big frame..like Fausto..I was
> sure of the handlebar e
> nd controls..probably a Brooks saddle..and he was
> using one of those newly
> introduced Campagnolo rear mechs.....Large or small
> flange hubs...? Alloy c
> otterless or steel cottered chainset..?
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> Come on, Aldo..give me a break...you must have that
> photo somewhere in y
> our archives.
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> Norris Lockley...Settle UK..where the remembered
> suspense of a sunny Par
> isian afternoon, spent in wonderful company..is all
> too present..
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