'Kidney Cutouts' (was:Re: [CR]elusive tipo hub

(Example: Racing:Jean Robic)

From: <ABikie@aol.com>
Subject: 'Kidney Cutouts' (was:Re: [CR]elusive tipo hub
To: mark@bulgier.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 19:23:34 EST

In a message dated 11/10/2002 3:49:46 PM Eastern Standard Time, mark@bulgier.net writes:


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> Date:11/10/2002 3:49:46 PM Eastern Standard Time
> From:<A HREF="mailto:mark@bulgier.net">mark@bulgier.net</A>
> To:<A HREF="mailto:classicrendezvous@bikelist.org">classicrendezvous@bikelist.org</A>
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> Here's a pic of that French OEM slotted Tipo:
> http://bulgier.net/pics/bike/Campy/unusual_Tipo_hub.jpg
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> From a '71 or '72 Motobecane Le Champion. The skewer, cones, locknuts and
> dustcaps are clearly Tipo, and the flanges don't have the extra machining
> that Record high-flange hubs got, that makes them thinner in the area of
> the
> slots.
>
> The skewer has the closed-C logo
>
> Mark Bulgier
> Seattle, Wa
> USA

That's the rarer Tipo to which I referred a few months ago We have commonly called the slots kidney cut outs.
Larry black
Washington, DC