[CR]Brooks saddle/seat/head angles and bar-con shifters

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From: "Jan Heine" <heine@mindspring.com>
Subject: [CR]Brooks saddle/seat/head angles and bar-con shifters
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:20:48 -0800

Since I get the list in digest mode, here on two recent topics:

1. Head angles to match slack seat angles. First: Head and seat angles are totally independent of each other. Many very nice-riding Singers have a 72-73 degree head angle - see http://www.mindspring.com/~heine/bikesite/bikesite/samples.html

2. Bar-con cable housing: Spence Wolf in 1965 used the unwrapped steel coiled stuff on a Cinelli Supercorsa. Campy bar-cons operating a steel Record rear.

Hope this helps.

Jan