Dear Norris, Many thanks for your help. Would you know where the large flange Super Competition hubs would have fitted into the picture, in terms of time frame and quality level? Great background info. It is not easy to find anything about these hubs on the web. Kind regards, Peter Rogers Barrie, Ontario, Canada
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From: "Norris Lockley" <nlockley73@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 8:21 PM
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR] EXCELTOO HUBS
> Exceltoo was the brand name of a range of reasonable to better quality
> hubs
> made by a company called Perrin based at BOEN, in the northern
> connurbation
> of St Etienne during the 1950s and 60s.
>
> The company manufactured a range of hubs from simple pressed steel ones
> for
> children's bikes etc via better quality sports types with alloy flanges
> pressed onto steel barrels through to forged aluminium alloy ones with
> either large or small flanges. The cheaper ranges were called New Star,
> the
> better ranges were Exceltoo.
>
> At some time, possibly in the 60/70s the company played down the Exceltoo
> brand and started manufacturing the Pelissier range. whose top of the
> range
> product was the 2000 model with its rectified annular bearings and unusual
> shaped cut-outs in the large coloured anodised flanges. The Exceltoo range
> did however continue until the company closed down possibly in the late
> 80s
> early 90s. At that point the range included medium quality small and large
> flange hubs that were probably forged for them by Maillard with whom the
> company started to cooperate in the late 70s in order to try to compete
> with
> the Japanese products that were flooding onto the market. It also
> continued
> to make tandem hubs including athe Mod 960 drum brake hubs.
>
> Norris Lockley
>
> Settle UK