<< Dale is there a page on CR for vintage specs and standards???
Not yet! ... That would be a pdf file containing the first edition of the Sutherland's manual. :)
Dale
Dale Brown Greensboro, North Carolina USA
-----Original Message----- From: Eugene Powell <radfin@SpiritOne.com> To: Hilary Stone <hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk> Cc: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Sent: Tue, Sep 29, 2009 1:58 pm Subject: Re: [CR] Taylor Tandem HS
This gets more and more interesting.................? ?
Dale is there a page on CR for vintage specs and standards? Is there another place this information should be recorded?? ?
Gene Powell?
Rad Finishes?
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On Sep 29, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Hilary Stone wrote:?
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> Taylor tandems mostly (but not all) use the French tandem headset > size. English tandems other than Taylor's mostly used an oversize > headclip which I think was 1 1/8in. A few later but classic tandems > from the 50s/60s did use screwed races on the 1 1/8 steerer but I > don't know what thread standard - I would suspect 24tpi.?
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> Hilary Stone, Bristol, British Isles?
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> M-gineering wrote:?
>> Wayne Bingham wrote:?
>>> Did Taylor use these? What is Sutherland's referring to when they?
>>> mention that "older British tandems use 1-1/8" headsets"? I need to?
>>> expand my tandem knowledge.?
>> Sutherland lists 28.6 x 26 tpi as an older English tandem size (as >> used in motorcycles) and the French 28 x 1?
>> The Taylors got a lot of stuff fromm france, and Reynolds were >> making tubes in metric size and not always in the inch-equivalent, >> so a metric steerer wouldn't surprise me?
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