Re: [CR]Raleigh Grand prix on eBay

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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:48:35 -0800
From: "jj and kk" <designzero@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Raleigh Grand prix on eBay
References: <MONKEYFOODKCSxQaWut0000038d@monkeyfood.nt.phred.org>
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John Betmanis wrote in part regarding:

http://ebay.com/<blah>

Note the Bramton double sided rear hub

I doubt if that's original equipment.

I think it is, saw many of these just like that in for service long ago, one of the workers had a knack of obtaining these hubs when a double sided hub fitted Gran Prix came in for service and needed a rear wheel...

"its cheaper and faster to have us just put in a pre built wheel, and it has an alloy hub.."

I laughed, as I was the guy pre building them.

He got to harvest the hub.

How bike shops worked 32 years ago...

John Jorgensen Palos Verdes Ca USA

Where I saw Ted Ernst today intensely fitting a guy to his bike in Manhattan Beach California.