Re: [CR]Tying and soldering.

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From: "Mark Fulton" <markfulton5@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Tying and soldering.
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 15:35:49 -0800
To: D&M Rapley <bunyips2@bigpond.net.au>
cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

I agree with David (Rapley) when he says, "...diving off the banking is the best bike feeling ever" with tied & soldered spokes. (G'day David.) But that's not why I tied & soldered my spokes when I was velodrome racing in the late '40s and early '50s. I tied & soldered mine because all of the pros had theirs done, and I was really good at it. My soldering always looked really good because I used solid bar tinned lead solder and resin flux\u2014not acid core wire solder.

Mark Fulton
Redwood City
California
USA