Does any body know about DT Swiss S Light hubs?

[Tootyred]

Ive found a front wheel with a DT Swiss " S Light" dynamo hub on it. Its quite odd, with an on / of switch at one end, connectors at the other and end terminal guards.

A quick internet seach turned up nothing.

I would estimate from the wheel its mid 80s.

Any body shed any light on it

 

[Nob]

Why not contact DT Swiss to see if they can help as that would be my first port of call

 

[Tootyred]

Possibility. But ive found asking companies about products that they made 40 years ago, tends to be less than fruitful......like when i contacted Marin about decoding early frame and was told the photos i provided of a frame wasn't one of theirs and that was not one of their frame numbers........until i pointed out i bought it new from them!

But it may be worth a try.

Thanks

 

[jim haseltine]

It'll be later than 1980s - DT Swiss didn't exist until the mid-1990s when the management bought some of the production facilities of the then defunct Beil United Wire Works (Vereinigte Drahtwerke Bielin Beil)

 

[sunympholepsy]

Aha! Are you the lucky man who got the beautiful Saracen?!
I am still beating myself for not buying it...

Best

 

[Tootyred]

Yes. Just down the road and big size, so seemed rude not to really.

Oddly it came originally from a guy who was well known around the bike shops apparently! Im struggling to place him, especially as i worked in the saracen dealership......but it was all a long time ago in a galaxy far away. Im going to speak to my ex colleague, who also went on to work for bucks in ipswich and see if he can put a face to the name. Its got a bucks decal on it, but he may have just looked after it....or supplied it as a one off...nice to have some local interest as im.....well.......local!

Sadly, the original owner has how passed away and was sold by a friend.

One of the reasons i asked about the hub, is its been laced into the original rim, so i kinda wanted a date for the hub to get and idea of its pedigree. But if its much later, i will take it off....it weighs a ton too!

There will be a build thread.....but for the moment, im just taking those bloody ridiculous bmx bars off. They are freak factory bars and they even have a shim cut from a frame in the stem as they are old skool 21.1mm.