Anyone know what this beauty is?
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Retro Wizard
As above, to spin the wheel around and get it back in place as quickly as possible as way back the only way of changing gear was to have two sprockets on the rear wheel.
If that makes sense lol
Takes me back to the days when I followed the bunch in a Falcon car ready to change wheels, only this time it was wheel guides on the brakes that helped....
Sorry, enough reminiscing. Back on topic
If that makes sense lol
Takes me back to the days when I followed the bunch in a Falcon car ready to change wheels, only this time it was wheel guides on the brakes that helped....
Sorry, enough reminiscing. Back on topic
Old Ned
Old School Grand Master
I thought these were ends for Osgears and the like to protect the hanging arm shifting 'prong' from damage by a clumsily removed wheel. I think Percy Stallard had his own version that he sold to the trade.
http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/stallard.html
http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/osgear.html
http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/stallard.html
http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/osgear.html
Correct but not exclusivelyOld Ned":a7geiacv said:
http://www.classiclightweights.co.uk/de ... ar-hs.html
Old Ned
Old School Grand Master
mdvineng":3hog7w07 said:
A friend of mine (who sadly passed away recently) had a bike with a Vittoria Margherita gear (possibly a Bianchi but not certain) and he reckoned it wasn't the easiest mech to use. Bending down once to change gear he ended up almost in the hedge! Finger-chopping good I reckon!
Not Osgear ends. the prong is just to help wheel replacement.
Osgear ends have a cut out to take the hub spindle in a fixed forward position. This is better for getting the changing arm close to the cogs.
As possibly the last person alive to have used a Paris Roubaix gear in a real road race there was nothing dangerous about undoing the rear wheel and changing gear on both at once.
Like some refer to "suicide" front changers, really no different than using a down tube bottle cage.
And if you have never had to stick a foot behind the fork crown to slow down....
Keith
Osgear ends have a cut out to take the hub spindle in a fixed forward position. This is better for getting the changing arm close to the cogs.
As possibly the last person alive to have used a Paris Roubaix gear in a real road race there was nothing dangerous about undoing the rear wheel and changing gear on both at once.
Like some refer to "suicide" front changers, really no different than using a down tube bottle cage.
And if you have never had to stick a foot behind the fork crown to slow down....
Keith
Re:
OK, so I can't give any help on the bike itself, but my dad knew Bill Oldham well. In fact, he used to spray and bake the frames for them in the 50s, in the big oven at the Geigy Chemical Company, where he worked... So, your frame may well have been sprayed by my dad. Bill was also an AA patrolman, on a motorbike and sidecar. My dad bought his first bike from Bill Oldham, a Chrome Carlton.
I didn't expect that much in response to asking if he remembered W Oldham!
Nick
OK, so I can't give any help on the bike itself, but my dad knew Bill Oldham well. In fact, he used to spray and bake the frames for them in the 50s, in the big oven at the Geigy Chemical Company, where he worked... So, your frame may well have been sprayed by my dad. Bill was also an AA patrolman, on a motorbike and sidecar. My dad bought his first bike from Bill Oldham, a Chrome Carlton.
I didn't expect that much in response to asking if he remembered W Oldham!
Nick
