Yes that may be true but the "Clickity clackity" sound they made was great for helping to keep up your speed on time trials.
>From: Sheldon Brown <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
>Date: 2007/12/04 Tue PM 08:34:12 CST
>To: hsachs@alumni.rice.edu, jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net,
Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>Subject: Re: [CR]Hi-E notes...
>Harvey Sachs wrote:
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>>The Hi-E rims are remarkable, made of rolled aluminum sheet. The
>>inners overlap and the ferrules serve to rivet the two edges, too.
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>Pop rivets, I believe.
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>Back in the '70s, Gary Klein (an M.I.T. student at the time) was
>racing in the local circuit around Boston, and he was a major weight
>weenie. He had Hi-E everything, and broke it all!
>
>I remember hearing that these rims were so fragile that you could
>dent them if you squeezed the brakes too hard while the bike was not
>in motion.
>
>Sheldon "Too Exotic For Me" Brown
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