The other thing to remember about front QR's is that the Kryptonite bike lock also appeared around this time. Using the Kryptonite required removing the front wheel and locking it with the rear wheel and frame. It was featured in Eugene Sloan's Complete Book of Bicycling
Best regards, Marcus Helman Detroit, MI
Message: 3 Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:10:52 -0500 From: John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net> Subject: Re: [CR] The mid-70's front-wheel QR bike? To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Message-ID: <4B23C08C.4040409@oxford.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed
donald gillies wrote:
> several japanese brands started to arrive at our shores with a quick
> release hub ... only on the front! Please, pray-tell, how does this
> help the buyer?
Very simple, really. In most cases it was only necessary to remove the front wheel, if even that, to transport a bike in a 1970s size car. Removing the rear wheel and messing with a greasy chain would have been beyond the skills of these first-time bike buyers. -- John Betmanis Woodstock, Ontario Canada
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