[CR] So: what did Hem ride?: Was Dura-Ace Timeline / Primative "front indexing"

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Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 15:06:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Don Wilson" <dcwilson3@yahoo.com>
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
In-Reply-To: <p0623093dc100042e849a@[10.0.1.11]>
Subject: [CR] So: what did Hem ride?: Was Dura-Ace Timeline / Primative "front indexing"

Ernesto had an appetite for the best of things. Willis and Geiger safari gear. Custom fly rods. And so on. Anyone know what brand of bike he favored? Does anyone have one of Hemingway's bikes? Now there would be a collectible vintage lightweight.

Don Wilson
Los Olivos, CA USA


--- Sheldon Brown wrote:


> Quoth David Snyder
>
> >I've often wished that my triple-ringed Trek 710
> had an "indexed"
> >travel stop on it's front Aero shift lever to keep
> from
> >over-downshifting to the middle ring during
> competitive riding
> >amidst sharp rolling hills. I have repeatedly
> pondered such a
> >device while riding, possibly consisting of a tiny
> frame-mounted,
> >spring-loaded lever leaning against the front of
> the shift lever,
> >and that could be flipped away from the lever when
> a shift to the
> >smal ring was actually needed, which is almost
> never in that bike's
> >routine. Couldn't you imagine a Rene Herse with
> something like
> >that, an elegantly skulpted and chromed
> spring-loaded dog-leg
> >doo-dad?
>
> Been done. See:
> http://sheldonbrown.com/gloss_e-f.html#erickson
>
> Sheldon "About To Sell That Bike" Brown
> +-----------------------------------------------------------+
> | It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the
> contours |
> | of a country best, since you have to sweat up the
> hills |
> | and coast down them.
> |
> | Thus you remember them as they actually are,
> while in a |
> | motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you
> have |
> | no such accurate remembrance of country you have
> driven |
> | through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
> |
> | -- Ernest Hemingway,
> By-Line |
> +-----------------------------------------------------------+
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