Dave, Great pictures. Good to see a photo of Fred Cappy. What a great character he was, and he and Mary did so much for the sport.
Since I'm in Bisbee, home of the famous Bisbee Blue turquoise, do you sell the Southwestern Top tube protector?
Ken Wallace, Proprietor Bisbee Bicycle Brothel 43 Brewery Ave. in the Silver King Hotel PO Box 1194 Bisbee, AZ 85603 USA (520) 236-4855 (cell) http://www.bisbeebicyclebrothel.com
On Jan 14, 2009, at 6:54 PM, Dave Porter wrote:
> Hello from sunny New Mexico, the Land of Entrapment.
> I saw your list today (blame Peter Weigle) and had to join after
> Dale set me
> straight on the how to.
> I'm a nearly 40 year veteran of frame building and an ex-bike shop
> owner
> (good riddance retail!)
> I hope that after reading the rules I can behave myself and stay
> abreast of
> the classic stuff you all enjoy.
> I only have one classic bike, a 1927 BSA which belonged to Franco
> Georgetti
> and was raced at Madison Square Garden in the 20's.
> I was very close to Pino Morroni for many years and miss him dearly.
> We
> shared many secrets and both had O.S.C.A. (Maseratti) powered race
> cars.
> My frames have garnered over 150 National records and a couple world
> records. One has held the National 40K TT for nearly 20 years
> (47:35- John
> Frey)
> I had a bill passed in NM which allows true pari-mutuel style Keirin
> racing, but the Feds have us stymied due to the Professional and
> Amateur
> Sports Protection Act. Long story, it's somewhere in the blog if
> you're
> bored some day...
> I'm married, have two Rottweiler's and am 58 years old. I was badly
> burned
> in a shop fire here in 2007 and lost an eye. I'm 95% recovered and
> back to
> work full time. I mostly restore old foreign sports cars from the
> 50's-60's.
> Hope I can add to the mix and I'll keep my politics on my blog
> Comments and questions welcomed.
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
>
> frogeye@porterscustom.com
>
> Porter Customs 2909 Arno NE
> Albuquerque, NM USA 87107
> 505-352-1378
> 1954 BN2 1959 AN5
> Porter Custom Bicycles
>
> cars:
> http://www.britishcarforum.com/
> gallery:
> http://picasaweb.google.com/
>
> blog: http://porterbikes.com/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org
> [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of donald
> gillies
> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 6:10 PM
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: Re: [CR] Weird gearing on Italian ebay (Bob Johnson)
>
> This blue, yellow, and chrome italian bike (BICI DA CORSA MUCELLI) has
> a 2-cog freewheel (almost like a tandem stoker gear) embedded in the
> right chainstay, which splits into 2 parallel plates and back at the
> midpoint.
>
> I can imagine that, although it presently uses the same number
> (28:28?) of teeth for the 2-speed freewheel, it was probably designed
> to be used with either a 2:1 or 1:2 gear, maybe 14-28 or 28-14, so
> that you could have a tremendously low or tremendously high 5-speed
> geartrain on the bike.
>
> The bike appears to be 52T front and 14-26T in the rear (roughly).
> That would be a 54-100 gear, in inches. With a change of 'stoker'
> cogs, you might get 26-50 gear inches, or 108-200 gear inches, and the
> later would be unheard of, on all but bonneville land-speed record
> bikes. Those land-speed record bikes have a similar drivetrain, and I
> have seen them put the reduction gear up by the seat cluster.
>
> - Don Gillies
> San Diego, CA, USA