Re: [CR]Re: Right side mounting

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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:10:06 -0800 (PST)
From: "Fred Rafael Rednor" <fred_rednor@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Right side mounting
To: wheelman@nac.net, classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
In-Reply-To: <37186.146.152.216.2.1136926410.squirrel@webmail.nac.net>


Do you think it might have had something to do with preferring the use of right hand threads for mounting a cog to the driving wheel?

That might be an incorrect guess, but it's not hokus pocus. Fred Rednor - Arlignton, Virginia (USA)


> Just had to chime in on this one. Right hand drive train on
> bicycles is a
> modern day adaptation. It could have just as well be left
> sided. The very
> first bikes had no bias at all. The boneshaker, Hi-Wheel,
> even the racing
> Hi-Wheel bikes had no chain and were front wheel direct
> drive. If there
> were any validity to one side being chosen over the other for
> such reasons
> as I have heard so far then we should all have our car
> steering wheels on
> the right side and enter from the left. Rubbish! It is what
> it is by
> coincidence or the desire to standardize. No hokus pokus or
> White Knight
> stories even if they sound romantic.
>
> Ray Homiski
> Elizabeth, NJ

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