Had to put my two cents worth in on tied and soldered track wheels. I still have a set of track wheels that I built just for riding 1000 meter races bac k in the mid 1950's. They have 28 hole Scheeren wood filled rims with RH Air lite high flange hubs. TIres were Clement Seta. They were good for 200 PSI. We didn't have air gauges that went that high so we flicked them with a fing er nail and listened for the right sound. Why did build wheels for just one race? For the same reason I have a set of Cane Creek Carbon Fiber wheels on my current track bike, lighter, stiffer, faster. I invite all list members t o come to The Velodrome at Bloomer Park in Rochester Hills, Michigan and div e off of 44 degree turn four and do a flying 200. I still find it a t hrill at seventy four years old although my times are considerable slower. G ene Diggs, Rochester Hills, MI, USA
On Jan 5, 2009, at 9:59:13 AM, ehbusch <ehbusch@bellsouth.net> wrote: From: ehbusch <ehbusch@bellsouth.net> Subject: Re: [CR]Tying and soldering. Date: January 5, 2009 9:59:13 AM GMT-05:00 To: "Mark Fulton" <markfulton5@mac.com>, "D&M Rapley" <bunyips2@bigpond.ne t.au> Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org I also agree with the "Diving Off the Banking Feeling" beeing the best and
which took on a whole new meaning when they used to hold races at Trenton
Speedway. Any one remember that? or been there, done that? Trenton Speedway
was used to hold Indy Car Races. As I remember it had the same degree banking as T-Town but it was about three times as wide. When you went to the
top of the banking there you were about four stories high..Not too many tied
and soldered road wheels there...
Ed Busch Vonore, Tennessee-USA
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Fulton" <markfulton5@mac.com> To: "D&M Rapley" <bunyips2@bigpond.net.au> Cc: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 6:35 PM Subject: Re: [CR]Tying and soldering.
>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