Is it possible that there is no upper headset bearing? I can't imagine how any race might be fitted internally. He has LOTS of nice track bikes...and NO furniture in his house. Think it's safe to say that he's probably a bachelor?
Matthew Bowne Brooklyn, New York
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> Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 05:11:17 -0800
> From: jmpiwonka@yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [CR]Re Soviet Takhion track bike
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>
> i still have no clue...need to see that black cap come
> off.
> the guy has some super nice bikes. that's for sure.
> http://www.flickr.com/
>
> jeff piwonka
> austin texas usa
>
>
> --- Baron von Drais wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> There is a bicycle with a handlebar/fork combo
>> like that on display in t
>> he transportation section at the Ontario Science
>> Center in Toronto Canada.
>> The Science Center's bike was donated by Canadian
>> cyclist Jocelyn Lovell. I
>> forget which discipline of track racing his was
>> built for (or who built it
>> ) but I do remember he had a chain on both sides and
>> the gear ratio was dif
>> ferent. There was some sort of automatic clutch
>> mechanism in the hub that k
>> icked out of one gear and into another as a certain
>> rmp. A bike that's both
>> fixed gear and not a single speed! If any one can
>> find online links to pho
>> tos I'd like to have another look at the bike please
>> and thank you. It's on
>> -topic as Jocelyn stopped riding in 1983 when he had
>> an accident.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Peter Schwar
>> Montreal, Canada
>>
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