Re: [CR] elusive tipo hub

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From: <GPVB1@cs.com>
Subject: Re: [CR] elusive tipo hub
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 23:19:38 EST

Mark:

Great pic.!

My uneducated guess would be that Campy needed to fill a significant OEM order or orders, and didn't have enough Tipo forgings available to meet the timing (think bike boom here...), and therefore decided to use "upgraded" Record forgings that were already on hand, but avoid the cost of the flange machining. Anyone else think likewise (or not...)?

Regards,

Greg "wish I had a set of those" Parker A2 MI USA

From: Mark Bulgier <mark@bulgier.net>
>
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: RE: [CR]elusive tipo hub
> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 13:07:46 -0800
>
> Here's a pic of that French OEM slotted Tipo:
> http://bulgier.net/pics/bike/Campy/unusual_Tipo_hub.jpg
>
> 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