Re: [CR]Chain for Legnano

(Example: Racing)

Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:25:19 -0400
From: "Norm and Val Lafleur" <nvlafleur@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]Chain for Legnano
To: "Ken Wehrenberg" <wnwires@htc.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <9E9B5CD6-C5DA-46CB-8D58-88FA6BD79787@htc.net>
reply-type=response

OK I'll add my 2 cents to this. The tapped hole is actually a brazed on boss tapped through the seat tube. I suspect that this was added when the Universal Mod 61's became available. Prior to that it is likely that the Universal side pulls were used. So if a Legnano has the front mounted binder bolt and is missing the CP braze on, it is probably from the 50's. Not an expert but an informed guess???

Norm Lafleur
Ashfield, Massachusetts
USA


----- Original Message -----
From: Ken Wehrenberg
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 10:06 AM
Subject: [CR]Chain for Legnano



> Jerry Moos said;
>
> "The usual solution to this, as seen on my 1968 Tipo Roma, was that
> Legano
> tapped a hole into the back of the seatube near its top to mount a
> special
> brake hanger curved to match the tube curvature and secured to the tube
> by
> a bolt run through a hole in the hanger and threaded into the hole tappe
> d into the tube."
>
> I have a 1961 Legnano in the same color scheme as the bike in question.
> Mine did not have a tapped hole. Instead it had a clamp- on stop about
> the seat post for the cable stop. With age, I wanted something a bit
> more secure so I replaced it with an almost identical piece: I called Joe
> Breeze when his Hite-Rite seatpost adjuster for MTBs came out as the
> mechanism by which it was held together was a very close dead ringer to
> the original Legnano part.
>
> Ken Wehrenberg, Hermann, MO