Harvey,
If you like far out bikes like the L'Integral, the Elswick-Hopper
Convincable may also interest you.
http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/
At 11/14/2009 09:17 PM -0500, Harvey Sachs wrote:
>Although I do like Funk, "L'Integral" isn't funk, but a single
>example of some really neat ideas - and some that have not proved in
>- and is well worth spending a few minutes looking at some really neat pix.
>
>--> Of course, the original reference was to the double-down tube,
>doubled-seat-tube "ladder" construction, with the chainrings inboard. Neat.
>--> And that pair of really radical elliptical chainrings! Woolly indeed!
>--> Now, look at the BB. That's not an eccentric. Note the hinge
>just forward and under the downtube. To figure this out, look at the
>pix of the hubs and fork ends. They have the bearings attached to
>the forks, so the axles rotate on a rigid hub. Look how easy it is
>to drop out a wheel (sprung cam-over QRs for the wheels), and how
>you don't have any size constraints on the bearings (unlike the
>right side of regular rear hubs)! I sketched this kind of assembly
>decades ago, and I'm tickled to see how nicely it's been executed here.
>
>Besides, the lugless work and pin striping are tres cool.
>
>This is one wild, original, and carefully thought-out bike, and I
>wish I could afford one.
>
>harvey sachs
>mcLean va.
>
>Hilary Stone found great pix:
>
>There's an L'Integral here...
>
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