[CR]Re: CR]Altenburger

Sam pointed out the Altenberger hubs: Subject: [hubs on ebay anyone know anything about these? I saw these and they looked interesting, I am not going to bid I was just curious if anyone knows what they would have been on. <A HREF="http://ebay.com/<blah> item 735889669

and Dirk picked up: I've just seen an old Olmo with these Altenburger hubs in a local bike shop. I guess it was from the mid 60s, Gran Sport derailleurs, Universal brakes, ... The hubs have been anodized in a deep purple(!) color. Pretty cool for the 60s. There's also a Altenburger equipped Cinelli at the CR pages: http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Italy/cinelli_jeffs.htm so the parts were probably high end stuff. Later in the 70s Altenburger built (only?) cheap loooong reach brakes for low end commuter bikes.

The Old Standard, Kopp's cycles in Princeton, NJ, has some Altenberger components in the display cases; I've seen a deep metallic pink as well as the purple (if memory serves). The Altenberger part I've like is the Authentic (but long-reach) dual pivot brake. I put them on a Moulton, where they greatly improved the stopping, and have kept a set for the Shimano know-it-alls in the neighborhood. The levers have little bits of colored anodizing, too.

The Cinelli Dirk called us back to has a wonderful rear derailleur, horizontal action parallelogram (vertical pivot hinges) mounted in front of the drop on the chain stay. Sort of like the very late Suntour effort, but from the 50s. Took a special fitting on the chainstay.

harvey sachs
mcLean VA