Re: [CR]WTB: sealed bearing fixed hubset, i.e. maillard

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Cinelli)

From: "cmontgomery" <cmontgomery15@cox.net>
To: "dan polito" <thepandle@hotmail.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <BAY111-F21349387C84F009DA7A524A4930@phx.gbl>
Subject: Re: [CR]WTB: sealed bearing fixed hubset, i.e. maillard
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:12:11 -0700



> currently i have, on my winter bike, a set of maillard sealed bearing
> low-flange track hubs from the late 70s. i just love them, they really keep
> out the crud.
> got anything lying around?
>
> dan polito
> cleveland, oh

I have a 1985 Maillard sealed bearing flip-flop built onto an MA-2 and I've been commuting on it since...since...since 1985! I've rebuilt it twice (I think) and delicately retuned it maybe two or three times and I'm still pounding away at it with full commuter panniers every weekday. Man, you can't argue with that kind of quality. One of the eyelets on the MA just popped out a while back though. I retrued the rim and now listen to the eyelet ping back and forth between rim and hub.

And no you can't have it.

Craig in Tucson