Re: [CR]RE: Vintage cyclometers

(Example: Framebuilders:Brian Baylis)

To: WTrikerider@cs.com
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:44:27 -0500
Subject: Re: [CR]RE: Vintage cyclometers
From: "Karl Frantz" <karl.frantz@juno.com>


On Wed, 30 Jan 2002 06:35:34 EST WTrikerider@cs.com writes:
>
> The mechanical odometer with the star-shaped wheel was made by Lucas. (or at
> least mine was) You had to buy a unit specific to you tire size. They were
> made of metal and worked forever or until the strike pin on the spokes wore
> through the teeth on the wheel. (...)

Or until it got bumped out of place and the pin collided with the center of the star wheel. When mine did that it exploded on a fast downhill... that was a real attention-getter!

I don't recall the maker but it wasn't Lucas; some plastic thing and probably Japanese.

Karl Frantz Sterling, Massachusetts -------------------------------------------------- Karl.Frantz@juno.com ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/.