Re: [CR] Weyless pedals--how light?

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From: "Andrew R Stewart" <onetenth@earthlink.net>
To: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos <jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:13:27 -0400
Subject: Re: [CR] Weyless pedals--how light?


Jerry- I can't say much about the early Wayless history, except that I remember reading about Bob Reedy and his stuff in Bicycling way back then.

Bill Shook (Sp?) was the son of a Wayless machinist (or engineer?) and the motivation for the bike parts being made in the beginning (or so I was told.) He raced bikes and Daddy helped him fancy up the bike. At some point Bill hooked up with Alan Kingsbury as a riding partner, then a business partner. American Classic, Kingsbury Components and another company (that I don't remember) were the results. They split up their partnership after differences grew. Fires, claims of theft and copying of design were some of the issues.

I'm sure others out there have a more complete and correct memory of all this. I'll be interested to hear more details.

Andy


----- Original Message -----
From: Jerome & Elizabeth Moos
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


<onetenth@earthlink.net> Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 9:00 AM Subject: Re: [CR] Weyless pedals--how light?

So was there a connection between Weyless and Bob Reedy? The Speedplay pedal "museum" shows Bob Reedy pedals nearly identical to Weyless. In fact the later Suntour Superbe Pro was extremely similar as well.

I understand one or more Weyless guys moved on the American Classic, which made hubs and seatposts similar to Weyless.

Regards,

Jerry Moos
Big Spring, Texas, USA


--- On Thu, 9/24/09, Andrew R Stewart wrote:


> From: Andrew R Stewart <onetenth@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [CR] Weyless pedals--how light?
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Date: Thursday, September 24, 2009, 11:19 PM
>
> This thread is very interesting to me. I worked in the shop
> that built a lot of the wheels that Weyless used during the
> "development" process. I started at the shop just as the
> company starting getting press and sales. I had a chance to
> heard the shop's view of things. After only a few years
> Weyless slipped from the market. For a while I paid
> attention to Bill Shook's career. My only regret was selling
> off my personal set of their great rollers. (On which I rode
> a very on topic Frejus track bike, whose hubs are now on my
> fixed/road bike).
>

Andrew R Stewart
Rochester, NY