Re: AW: [CR]Why is there no German threading?

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Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 10:28:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: "David Ross" <dlr94306@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: AW: [CR]Why is there no German threading?
To: CR discussion list <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>


I haven't been following this thread closely, and so I haven't seen any references to Durkopp if they have been mentioned. Didn't Durkopp start making bicycle in 1867 or something like that? And they continued until at least the 1950s. That's a pretty long tenure, and I think qualifies them to have been "there at the beginning!"

Dave Ross (with a ca-1937 Durk K-V mod 116 restoration in progress) Portola Valley, CA

David Toppin schrieb:
> The Germans weren't really there at the beginning (1880's) of the era,
> Pope, Overman, Spalding, Gormully & Jeffrey . Of course Baron von Drais is
> credited with the invention of the hobby horse, and he was German. Some
> believe there were others before him because his machine seems to be too
> refined to be the first...
>
> Schwinn wasn't around until 1895 when the bicycle industry was in full
> swing. That was the heyday.