RE: [CR]bayliss-wiley

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From: "Neil Foddering" <neilfoddering@hotmail.com>
To: Terry Farrant <tgf1@shaw.ca>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: RE: [CR]bayliss-wiley
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:03:44 +0000
In-Reply-To: <3B2FD88E7044413FB4D9F79638DDBB63@josephine>
References: <3B2FD88E7044413FB4D9F79638DDBB63@josephine>


It sounds like the Bayliss-Wiley Continental, introduced soon after the w ar, presumably to compete with British Hub Co.'s Airlite Continental. It was available through the 50's, but manufacture ceased in the early 60's .

Neil Foddering Weymouth, Dorset, England


> From: tgf1@shaw.ca
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:27:27 -0700
> Subject: [CR]bayliss-wiley
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> #1
> terrors
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> Join Date: Jun 2005
> Location: Vancouver Island B.C.
> i acquired an interesting wheel today. The hub is a Bayliss-Wiley
> flip-flop, the rim a Fiamme red label sew-up. It is in very nice
> condition. Can anyone tell me about this hub? I have read some stuff on
> their internally geared hubs and their cassette hubs but didn't find
> anything about this particular hub. It has a chromed steel spindle
> married to high flange alloy with circular cut outs.
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> terry farrant
> vancouver island, bc
> canada