Both Bardon and JPR made French oversize headsets (and others??). MPI has some of the JPR sets. I can take some measurements to determine the actual size, if that's valuable to the archives. I also have a couple of French tandem forks in the odds-and-ends file, so I should be able to get the true skinny on that set-up.
Did Taylor use these? What is Sutherland's referring to when they
mention that "older British tandems use 1-1/8" headsets"? I need to
expand my tandem knowledge.
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Wayne Bingham
Lovettsville, Virginia USA
> Folks, I distinctly remember there being an "over sized French tandem"
> headset...
> Seems like it was made by & named after the maker, Bardon. In fact, at one
> time I had a couple for sale here at cycles de ORO (like 10-20 years ago) as
> if tandems rolled up needing new headsets
>
> And, IIRC, Fred DeLong makes mention of these in his book...
> And I thought they was only available in a metric version, but who knows,
> maybe the Taylor bros were able to have them made for their bikes.
> And they were definitely not MTB 1 1/8" and predated those by 20-30 years...
>
> Dale
>
> Dale Brown