Re: [CR] Cambio Corsa bikes

(Example: Racing:Beryl Burton)

From: "Aldo Ross" <aldoross4@siscom.net>
To: "Aldo Ross" <aldoross4@siscom.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <004701c6c0b9$8abad2a0$fc14fbd1@Newhouse>
Subject: Re: [CR] Cambio Corsa bikes
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:25:43 -0400
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Try this link instead:

http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/aldoross/album114/album76/axledrop.JPG.html

Aldo Ross
Middletown, Ohio


----- Original Message -----
From: Aldo Ross
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 6:24 PM
Subject: Re: [CR] Cambio Corsa bikes



> This is the question which comes up most often in regard to Cambio Corsa
> and
> Paris-Roubaix bikes. I see others have already explained the axle
> splines,
> but I've added a picture to my cambio Paris-Roubaix album to help
> illustrate:
>
> http://www.wooljersey.com/gallery/aldoross/album114/album76/axledrop.JP
> G.html
>
> Aldo Ross
> Middletown, Ohio
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bianca Pratorius" <biankita@comcast.net>
>
>> When using the Cambio Corsa bike, when the rear quick release is
> released
>> and then re-tightened after a gear change, what insures the rear wheel
>> will be straight in the drop outs? When I am doing this by standing
> behind
>> the bike on a regular rear drop out, it usually takes me a little
> giggling
>> to make sure the rear wheel is right down the center before I
> retighten
>> the quick release. If I don't do this carefully, the rear wheel will
> often
>> be a little cocked to one side or the other. Having the screw down
>> adjusters in the back set evenly is a help but not a guarantee. On a
> bike
>> without even that assurance, I would imagine that it's possible to end
> up
>> with a dangerously off kilter wheel. The saw tooth drop outs on the
> Cambio
>> Corsa don't reassure me much either.
>>
>> Take Rae Dawn Chong's performance as a quick wheel changer in
> "American
>> Flyers". At the speed she did it, I would be very reluctant to trust
> that
>> bike for fear that either the wheel would be crooked or the tension in
> the
>> quick release would be too loose. Saving ten seconds for a wheel
> change
>> would be poor economy indeed, if you caused a crash down the road.
>>
>> Garth Libre in Miami Shores Heights Fl.
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