It's interesting that these Phil hubs are chrome plated. The Phil hubs on my tandem (from 1979) are 3 piece hubs, with have what I would call medium-height flanges - and the central barrel section appears to be unpolished stainless steel.
Best regards,
Fred Rednor - Arlington, Virginia (USA)
> First Phil hubs I saw were hi
> flanged. My low flange hubs of the same era
> all have rusted chrome plated
> shells!
> T. Shaw
> Santa Clara, Calif.
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Rich Pinder rpinder@usc.edu
> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 09:07:19 -0700
> To:@bikelist.org
> Subject: Re: [CR] Phil Wood (RIP) first hubs?
> classicrendezvous
>
> Someone told me that the ones which came on my Windsor pro
> (which were
> spec'd by the original owner at the time he bought it) were
> his 'first
> generation'. These are the HIGH flange type.
> Someone also mentioned
> there may have been a LOW flange version back in the 70's
> as well (??)
>
> Pics at:
> http://www-hsc.usc.edu/
> Resolution should be pretty good in that second one.
>
> I recently rode this beauty a bit, and took it to the
> RoseBowl ride...
> great bike.
>
> Rich Pinder
> Sherman Oaks, CA
>
> pbbikes wrote:
> > Hey everyone , welcome to the
> weekend. I'v ebeen searching around for
> some
> > photos of the early or first hubs that Phil Wood
> together. I was talking
> > with an old shopowner from Northern Ca this morning
> about his shop in the
> > 70's in general and he pulled out a really odd looking
> set of phils that
> > were pretty worked but the high flanges looked
> different. Almost like he
> > put flanges on a bottom bracket. The hub barrell also
> looked fatter.
> >
> > Anyone have a picyture they can send me or a link.
> >
> > Ciao barry scott
> > Mount shasta CA USA
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