Re: Weyless, was Re: [CR]the one bike you .....

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Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:19:27 -0800
To: kurtsj@mtco.com, Harvey M Sachs <sachs@erols.com>
From: "Joseph Bender-Zanoni" <jfbender@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Weyless, was Re: [CR]the one bike you .....
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
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Thats the name, Bob Reedy. They were not available for long. Kind of the opposite of Chris King who developed a product and stuck with it forever.

Joe Bender-Zanoni

At 10:19 AM 12/19/00 -0600, kurtsj@mtco.com wrote:
>Quoting Harvey M Sachs <sachs@erols.com>:
>
>>
>> At 11:06 PM 12/18/2000 -0800, Joseph Bender-Zanoni wrote:
>> and the american
>> >made sealed bearing pedals that were certainly copied by the Sunour
>> >Superbe. Anyone know who made these?
>>
>> They were marketed by Weyless, heard they were made by a machine shop in
>> Rochester, NY, but that is just a rumor. Pedals were obviously built on
>> a mill, rather than forged as the Suntours, but very nice and I wish I
>> still had mine...
>>
>> harvey sachs
>
>It's been a long time, but weren't the pedals originally designed and built by
>Bob Reedy? Seems like I recall an advertisement for them in Bicycling many
>years ago.
> I'm also a fan of the design, and own a pair of Sun Tour road pedals of this
>style, as well as a pair of Sun Tour mtb pedals (same body, different cage.
>dremel'ed into track pedals) that have Grease Guard bearings (wonderful!).
>Perhaps I'll consider clipless pedals when these have worn out.

>

>

>Steve Kurt

>Peoria, IL