Harvey, You've got yourself a challenge!! I have some Prior Supah LARGE FLANGE and plenty perforated hubbed wheels that will lay waste to the FB and Paramount Hubs! Bring it on!!!
Since the Priors are French and Nobilette is a French name can I get ananachronism waiver for the combination??
Matts Priory Belmont Shore, CA USA
>From: Harvey Sachs <hmsachs@verizon.net>
>Matt Gorski wrote (snip to change the topic):
>
>I'm digging out
>my folding Mark Nobilette to get it's Cirque Service and
>perhaps a new set of wheels.... maybe the double drilled
>Paramount wheelset I have somewhere just to keep with the
>drillum theme.....
>
>++++++++++++++++++
>Now, Matt, double-drilling the spoke holes is one way to go. How about a
>bit of a contest for bragging rights, about the most holes drilled
>stock, per flange, excluding the spoke holes? Or largest holes? I'll
>open the silliness with two offerings:
>
>18 drillium holes/flange on 36 hole FB 3-piece, later sold as Campy with
>same drill pattern. 9 are about 1 cm, arranged as an inner circle, and
>the outer 9 are much smaller. The tight synching with the spoke holes
>suggests that a 32 hole, if it existed, would have had only 8 of each size.
>
>(Schwinn) Paramount 3-piece hub, 9 holes each about 15.3 mm diameter.
>For comparison, a dime is a bit under 18 mm... Airlite Continental HF
>has 10 holes, but only about 12 mm diameter.
>
>let the games begin!
>
>harvey sachs
>mcLean va.