Re: [CR]Falcon Track bike?

(Example: Framebuilders)

Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 09:52:51 +0000
Subject: Re: [CR]Falcon Track bike?
From: "Hilary Stone" <Hilary.Stone@Tesco.net>
To: Classic.Rendezvous@bikelist.org


Certainly in the 1940s, 1950s and early 60sframes were built with rear facing ends as road/track frames for mixed road and track use. On the road they were used for training on fixed particularly during the winter and during the summer were time trialled on fixed gear. In Britain regulations have for a very long time required the use of a brake in addition to the fixed gear for road use. Most riders rode fixed gear for short distance time trials well into the 1960s and in the late 40s/early 50s many used fixed gear even for the longer 12 hour and 24 hour events. Riders were less well off then and their time trial bike also also did duty on the track ­ frequently it would be ridden to the track with single front brake ­ the bars, stem and brake then exchanged for a set of track bars and stem. Hilary Stone

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>From: BECaldwell@aol.com

>To: <"Classic Rendezvous"@bikelist.org>

>Subject: [CR]Falcon Track bike?

>Date: Mon, Jan 8, 2001, 2:32 pm

>


> My forst foray in to track bikes:

> Was it common for 70's track bikes to have the fork crown and seatstay bridge

> drilled for brakes?

> I recently acquired a beautiful fully chromed Falcon with Campy track

> dropouts, which the previous owner had outfitted with Suntour single speed

> freewheel and NR brakes. Had it not been for the track dropouts, I would

> have thought it to be a road machine.

>

> I suppose if they were making large production runs, it would be fiscally

> prudent to have one style fork crown, and one style seatstay bridge, etc etc

> etc., so that a track machine would be appear to be purposely drilled for

> brakes?

>

> Brian Caldwell, finally got above 40 in Knoxville TN