Re: [CR] German bike on ebay: set up for zero-dish rear wheel

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From: "Steven M. Johnson" <grisha2@juno.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:34:01 +0000
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR] German bike on ebay: set up for zero-dish rear wheel


Thanks for this post, I have a book from the early 80s showing this as a custom feature from a builder in Germany. I am thinking the book attributed it to Kahlkoff.

Even more interesting is that one of these bikes made it to the US. The Mark was at an all time low against the dollar during the Reagan years 84-85. (I was getting married and passed up on that BMW Paris Dakar motorcycle and really cool cyclo-cross frames in a Nuremberg bike shop.)

I have seen several domestic market low end German Hercules (made in Nuremberg, not the same as the English Hercules) here in thrift shops in the DC area. The only way they made it into the US was shipped in household goods for military personnel. They were never sold in the US.

I am still waiting for someone to put a scan of an early 80s Brugelman's [sp?] bike catalog online.

Steven Johnson Millersville, MD

Marcus wrote: Someone else outed this a day or two ago, but I did not see any comments on it. ebay item 160393636866

Best regards, Marcus Helman Detroit, MI

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