Would be interesting to build the ultimate "death" bike, selecting the wors t designs and highest failure rate components from the on-topic time line. What would that look like...? Strictly for show, of course.
Robert St.Cyr
Davis Ca. USA> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 11:15:56 -0800> From: artlink@columnss
anantonio.com> Subject: Fwd: [CR]re: Hi-E,now dangerous products> To: class
icrendezvous@bikelist.org> > We have the Pivo "death stem",the Lambert "dea
th fork" and Now the Hi-E "death rims". What else should be added to the li
st? Inquiring minds would like to know. Art Link,San Antonio,TX,USA> > Robe
rt Schenker <ris@schenkerdesign.com> wrote: To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.
org> From: Robert Schenker <ris@schenkerdesign.com>> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007
10:30:01 -0800> Subject: [CR]re: Hi-E> > I second all that. Around '76 I bo
ught a pair of the time trial > wheels. Of course, young and idiotic, I rod
e them all over--for a few > weeks. Then a couple of spokes pulled out of t
he rear rim (actually > tore the aluminum). I'm lucky that's all that happe
ned. In those days > I used to ride downhill with little restraint. That wa
s enough for me.> > I've got a bunch of Hi-E hubs sitting around here; I ev
en still have > that pair of TT wheels. They are very good--except for that
TT front. > If anyone has an interest in them, I'm open to a trade or some
thing.> > Bob Schenker> Oakland, CA> ______________________________________
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