[CR] Bottom Bracket sleeves... WHEN?

(Example: Bike Shops:R.E.W. Reynolds)

From: <Stronglight49@aol.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:47:34 EDT
Subject: [CR] Bottom Bracket sleeves... WHEN?
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


It occurred to me that the sleeves all would have come into existence some time after an oil fitting at the top of a Bottom Bracket shell was the norm. I remember using them all through the 1970s. Anyone know when crud-guard sleeves were first used, advertised, or recommended - or by whom?

Bob Hanson, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

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