Interestingly, I won my first bike race in 1946 at a July 4th event on the
1/4 mile asphalt stock/midget car track at Soldiers Field, in Chicago.
My bike: A C.C.M camel back 28" full size wheel avec le layback design.
Sure beat the hell out of the old US gaspipe plumbers dreams otherwise known
in the trade as shithouse tubing bikes.
Hey, yesterday was Mary's and my 35th wedding anniversary, and today my 75th
birthday.
So I claim executive priviledge for a minor but truthful naughty comment.
Cheers!
Ted Ernst
Palos Verdes Estates
CA USA
> It is a regal feeling to be riding along on a _real_ 28" tyre. :-)
> In Canada there were manufacturers making bikes in this style until WWII.
> Almost roadster angles, but stripped down with more sporting intent.
>
> On bikes intended for rough and unmanicured surfaces a high bottom bracket
> was common, in my unsubstantiated opinion, more to prevent pedal strike
> than to make it easy to hop logs. ;-)
> There is a trade off with this frame design, a high BB dictates a smaller
> frame size to get stand over clearance and then a long seat pin is needed
> to get the saddle back in proper relationship to the pedals.
> Marcus Coles
> London, Ontario, Canada