Odd protrusion, was [CR]Faure bicycle...anybody know about this
maker?
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Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:09:45 -0500
From: "HM & SS Sachs" <sachs@erols.com>
To: tsan7759142@comcast.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Odd protrusion, was [CR]Faure bicycle...anybody know about this
maker?
Tom Sanders wrote:
Well, I stumbled onto the most marvelous photo of a bicycle on Jan =
Heine's site. It is a chrome or stainless '52 Faure. =
http://www.mindspring.com/~heine/bikesite/bikesite/images/faure.jpg
It may have the coolest integration of light to fender to something else =
(anybody know for sure just what it is?) that's round... several of us =
have speculated about it. <snip>
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That is, I'd bet $$ to Bayliss Donuts, a cyclometer, perhaps driven off the belt you can vaguely see (larger diameter spool at hub end). Size and shape look a lot like the Huret, but clearly not the Bowden cable drive ("speedometer cable" I'm used to.