[CR]Re: Raleigh Grand prix on eBay

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From: <brooks.r.g@comcast.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 06:47:35 +0000
Subject: [CR]Re: Raleigh Grand prix on eBay

I have a grand prix in white with the same hub. It also is equipped with a fork mounted dynamo-powered headlight, white fenders and a Pletscher rear rack. I will be thinning out the herd and will offer it to the list before I sell on ebay. $35 for local pickup or $75 shipped continental US.

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Robert Brooks Shoreline, WA USA
> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 18:48:35 -0800
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> John Betmanis wrote in part regarding:
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> http://ebay.com/<blah>
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> Note the Bramton double sided rear hub
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> I doubt if that's original equipment.
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> 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.."
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> I laughed, as I was the guy pre building them.
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> He got to harvest the hub.
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>
> How bike shops worked 32 years ago...
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> John Jorgensen
> Palos Verdes Ca USA
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> Where I saw Ted Ernst today intensely fitting a guy to his bike in Manhattan
> Beach California.