Harvey Sachs wrote:
>The Hi-E rims are remarkable, made of rolled aluminum sheet. The
>inners overlap and the ferrules serve to rivet the two edges, too.
Pop rivets, I believe.
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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