The School Lane address was good the last time I bought something, in 1998. He has spoken to me about his propeller plane. Yes, whadda guy. I tell ya though, if it is as creatively engineered as his rear cassette hub, you would not get me within a mile of it for one million Frejus framesets!
Last I heard, he wanted $160k for the business. Believe me, I gave it a half day of passing thought. It would though be very difficult to turn a respectable ROI with that size investment me thinks. Perhaps we could all pool together and go into the hub (and propeller plane) business?
Whadda say?
Peter Grenader in the city where paperboys drive SUVs (LA)
Joseph Bender-Zanoni wrote:
> My highest mileage hub set is a Hi-E. At the 30K mile mark or so Harlan
> rebuilt the hubs like new including the recomended (by me) Alemite finish
> for very low bucks. So now the hubs have about 40K miles. Pino skewers
> though.
>
> Steve- That is the familiar address. Could I have a scan of the price list.
>
> Joe
>
> At 07:45 PM 1/2/01 -0600, Steve Kurt wrote:
> >At the risk of confusing matters, I got a letter from
> >Harlan in March 2000, and the return address was:
> >Hi-E Engineering Inc.
> >1247 School Lane,
> >Nashville, TN 37217
> >
> >Isn't this the address that Hi-E used 20+ years ago?
> >He sent a price list, which I'd be happy to scan and
> >e-mail.
> >
> >Harlan did mention that he was trying to sell the hub
> >business and build an aircraft to beat the world's
> >propeller-driven speed record. What a guy!
> >
> >cheers,
> >Steve Kurt
> >(been using a Hi-E front skewer for 25 years now)
> >
> >
> >> To: John Taglia <jtagli1@uic.edu>
> >> From: Jeff Slotkin <jeffslotkin@home.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [CR]Hi-E contact info
> >> Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> >>
> >> At 09:27 PM 1/1/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> >>
> >> >Howdy,
> >> >
> >> >The last contact information I had:
> >> >
> >> >Hi-E Engineering Incorporated
> >> >615-254-6858
> >> > 2420 Cruzen St
> >> >Nashville, TN
> >>
> >> Thanks John, I think I'll try that tomorrow.
> >.........
> >>
> >> Jeff Slotkin
> >> TheLocalSpoke
> >> Goose Creek, SC