Re: [CR]Urban Legends, by Jobst Brandt

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Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 23:51:51 -0700
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Urban Legends, by Jobst Brandt
References: <BB65AF87.11CAC%tullio@theramp.net>


Todd Kuzma wrote:
>
> on 8/17/03 8:59 PM, Joe Bender-Zanoni at joebz@optonline.net wrote:
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> > Jobst says to run the pulling spokes on the outide of the flange because the
> > spoke will be pulled in (straighten) during pedaling and increase clearance.
> > (p. 74).
>
> Yes, but he also says that doing so is nearly pointless since the difference
> in clearance is so small. Jobst is pretty clear on this so don't make this
> one of his "myths."

Yup, not one of Jobst "myths".

We hadn't even heard of Jobst Brandt here in Southern California in the mid '70s. There was a problem with Campagnolo hubs and derailleurs, and Regina six speed freewheels (large cog flush with the back of the freewheel body; sometimes the large cog was even cupped [a defect] so it was even closer to the spokes). I (and obviously a lot of other guys) figured out the pulling spoke thing because the pulley cage on the NR and SR rear derailleur cleared the spokes in the bike stand but when climbing you could hear the cage grazing the spokes. I filed the end of the pulley bolt and thinned the inner cage at its end and no more rubbing. This was when everyone in SoCal ran a 52-42 and a 13-21 Regina Oro 6 speed.

I use to juggle around the washers (even making extra thin ones) on the axle to get out as much of the dish as possible, short of the chain rubbing on the inside of the dropout on the small cog. Then (still in the mid-70s), while thumbing through a Campagnolo catalog, I found "freewheel spacers" (1, 1.5 and 2 mm)! Whoa... Dude! Nobody ever told me about freewheel spacers! Ya learn something new everyday ;)

Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, CA

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