I've never thought about this much before, I think maybe some Normandy Competition came with chromed QR nuts even on Peugeots. BTW Normandy Sport wasn't limited to low end bikes. It was OE on the Raleigh Gran Sport, which was 531DB throughout, so hardly low end. Also, I think, the Follis 172, which was 531 DB main tubes and 531 forks.
Regards,
Jerry Moos
Big Spring, Texas, USA
> From: donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>
\r?\n> Subject: Re: [CR] dating Normandy hubs
\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
\r?\n> Date: Friday, November 6, 2009, 7:10 PM
\r?\n> Here's a Normandy question for the
\r?\n> whole list:
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Normandy 'Sport' hubs (the ones with the small
\r?\n> sub-lima-bean-sized
\r?\n> holes and flat flanges, sold on low-end raleighs, peugeots,
\r?\n> daweses,
\r?\n> motobecanes, and schwinns) came with an M.M. Atom QR skewer
\r?\n> that had a
\r?\n> gigantic fat chromed QR nut.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Normandy 'Competition' (or 'Luxe Competition') hubs (the
\r?\n> ones that
\r?\n> were campagnolo-like but smaller in diameter, with the
\r?\n> larger
\r?\n> lima-bean sized holes, red or gold foil labels, and the
\r?\n> relief around
\r?\n> the lima-bean holes but beefier spoke area, like
\r?\n> campagnolo) most
\r?\n> often came with an M.M. Atom QR skewer but a delrin nut
\r?\n> (which often
\r?\n> broke after many years.)
\r?\n>
\r?\n> Carlton, however, shipped normandy competition hubs with
\r?\n> the gigantic
\r?\n> fat chromed QR nuts.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> ==> Did Carlton realize the delrin nuts were bad and
\r?\n> special-order
\r?\n> the low-end QRs with the steel nuts to
\r?\n> solve this problem?
\r?\n>
\r?\n> ==> Did any other company ship normandy competition
\r?\n> hubs with the
\r?\n> gigantic fat chromed QR nuts??
\r?\n>
\r?\n> To the best of my knowledge Peugeot and Motobecane always
\r?\n> shipped
\r?\n> normandy competition hubs with the plastic (breaks-a-lot)
\r?\n> QR nuts.
\r?\n>
\r?\n> - Don Gillies
\r?\n> San Diego, CA, USA