Re: [CR] What joy! (1982 Woodrup)

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Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:33:32 -0400
From: "Ken Freeman" <kenfreeman096@gmail.com>
To: <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>
Cc: Dale Brown <oroboyz@aol.com>, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] What joy! (1982 Woodrup)


My Woodrup is a 52 cm, 54.5TT, with a 6.5cm BB drop. I don't understand it, or really like it that much, but it is cushy. Mine is 1980, on topic, from the pre-10 Speed Drive era.

One way or another, this is Woodrups' concept of how a touring or sport/touring bike should be.

Ken Freeman Ann Arbor, MI USA

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Jerome & Elizabeth Moos < jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> I have a Woodrup from that era, and it also has a very high BB, again
> somewhat like a track frame.
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> Regards,
>
> Jerry Moos
> Big Spring, Texas, USA
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>
> --- On Sun, 3/22/09, Dale Brown <oroboyz@aol.com> wrote:
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> > From: Dale Brown <oroboyz@aol.com>
> > Subject: Re: [CR] What joy! (1982 Woodrup)
> > To: kevinsayles@tiscali.co.uk, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> > Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009, 10:56 AM
> > <<....74 head with 1 3/8" rake......73 seat.....
> > 16" back end. >>
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> > Kevin, is this a continuation of that recent "reverse
> > conversion" topic? This frame's specs surely sounds
> > like a track frame with road drop outs! TIGHT! :)
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> > Dale Brown
> > Greensboro, North Carolina USA
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: kevin sayles <kevinsayles@tiscali.co.uk>
> > To: classic Rendezvous
> > <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
> > Sent: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:42 am
> > Subject: [CR] What joy!.......and a Campag question
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> > As mentioned in my earlier post this morning, I went for a
> > ride on my
> > 1982 Woodrup Super Record bike......it's the first
> > proper ride Iv'e done
> > on it since rebuilding the bike in its former glory, [for
> > some years it
> > did have off topic Ultegra 8spd!] and I'd forgotton
> > just how wonderful
> > this bike rides and handles.........forget the now peculier
> > feeling of
> > toe clips & straps, or the 'small feel' of the
> > Super Record brake
> > levers, the bike just floats along, and it feels so
> > positive.........I
> > now remember saying to myself years ago that this frame was
> > the best I'd
> > ridden, perhpaps its the geometry.......74 head with 1
> > 3/8" rake......73
> > seat..... 16" back end..............wonderful, I can
> > see myself riding
> > this bike quite a lot this Summer, even in some mid week 10
> > mile time
> > trials and if I'm going well I don't expect to be
> > 'much slower' than on
> > a modern bike!..........in fact this bike still has my
> > personal best 50
> > mile TT time credited to it [1.54.34 in 82 no tri bars etc]
> >
> > Pics of this bike are on my flickr site
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevin_sayles_bikes/
> >
> > So now for the Campag question......a mate called round
> > yesterday, and
> > when I showed him my Super Record front gear with the black
> > arms, 3
> > holes, but with the later 'Sheild logo' as seen on
> > C Record stuff he
> > reckons this is from the last generation of Super Record,
> > which may be
> > true, but he also said that the rear Super Record gear was
> > with the
> > 'concealed spring' like on a 50th aniversary gear,
> > and on the last gen
> > Nuovo Record gears. Could this be true?........has anyone
> > seen or got
> > such a Super Record rear gear, I know there were a diferent
> > style of
> > jockey wheel bolts, and some had alloy bolts rather than
> > titanium, but
> > never seen one with the concealed spring.
> >
> > Come on you Campag fans!!
> >
> > Cheers Kevin Sayles
> > Bridgwater Somerset UK [still Sunny!]