I remember that.
But then again I was racing at Kenosha (and Northbrook) at the time, so it may have been a local colloquialism.
Rex Gilmore Vienna, VA
-----Original Message----- From: Cox, Thomas R. <CoxT@MillerCanfield.com> To: 'classicrendezvous@bikelist.org' <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 9:27 am Subject: [CR] Fixed gear = stiff hub?
Does anyone remember people in the 50s and 60s calling a fixed-gear bike a "stiff hub"? Or was that a Kenosha, Wisconsin velodrome peculiarity? Or my faulty memory?
Tom Cox Detroit (Home of the Big 3 and Final 4), Michigan USA
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