Re: [CR]Was: TA bike bags...how about the rack?

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From: "Diane Feldman" <feldmanbike@home.com>
To: "Mark Bulgier" <mark@bulgier.net>, "classic list" <Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, "Roy H. Drinkwater" <roydrink@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Was: TA bike bags...how about the rack?
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 21:30:55 -0700


I did bend those wires and it looked a little funny, but worked. Yours sounds like a much classier solution. It also might depend on the generation of Weinmann brake and whether or not it's Weinmann or Dia Comp--don't remember which one I crowbarred the TA holder onto--and I know very little of variations in those brakes but know that there is some. The pre-1970 ones are probably flatter than later brakes and the earliest models with half-round profile arms are flatter still. Hmmm, wonder how one would fit on the pair of Czech Favorit calipers I've got? David Feldman


----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Bulgier
To: 'Diane Feldman'


<Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>; "Roy H. Drinkwater" <roydrink@mac.com> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 9:23 PM Subject: RE: [CR]Was: TA bike bags...how about the rack?


> Dave Feldman wrote:
> >
> > They can be fitted to Weinmann or Universal centerpulls.
>
> Is there a trick? I had an old one with bad chrome, and wanted to put it on
> a Weinmann. The Weinmann is so much thicker front to back, I had to shorten
> the arms that attach to the front of the brake - unbrazed the little plates,
> shortened the rods, and rebrazed the plates. (While I was at it, I brazed a
> swoopy headlight mount to it and mounted a Lucifer "Aero" headlamp -
> schweet! Still ride that bike, 20+ years later - the rack mostly gets used
> for six-packs).
>
> Since the rods are curved, one could shorten 'em by increasing the
> curvature. I didn't try it, but it looked like you'd have to do a lot of
> that, and it'd look funny after - no?

>

> Mark Bulgier

> Seattle, Wa

> USA