Re: [CR]Vintage wind trainers?

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From: "Aldo Ross" <aldoross4@siscom.net>
To: "James Swan" <jswan@optonline.net>, "Bill Talbot" <bulldogsrule@graffiti.net>
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Subject: Re: [CR]Vintage wind trainers?
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 21:27:39 -0500
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cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

I hope I still have my original RacerMate someplace... mine had a black rubber strap to provide the tension.

I used it in our basement on a set of steel-drummed rollers. For some reason that set-up would often create a big static charge which would suddenly discharge in a blue-white arc between the front roller and the basement floor. The loud "CRACK" would send the dog and cats scurrying in all directions. It reminded me of one of those sparking machines from the laboratory scene in the original "Frankenstein" movie.

Aldo Ross
Middletown, Ohio
USA


----- Original Message -----
From: James Swan
To: Bill Talbot
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: [CR]Vintage wind trainers?



> Hi Bill,
>
> Yes, I remember those. I never owned one but they seemed pretty cool. I
> think that they came after the original RacerMate . Anybody remember
> those?
>
> They had a squirrel cage devise mounted on a swinging arm that that
> clamped onto the seat post. The roller was brought to bear on the top of
> the rear wheel with a length of surgical tube acting as a tension spring
> to keep it in contact . It had a tubular steel stand to hold the bike off
> the floor. The cool thing was that you could ride the bike on your
> rollers with the squirrel cage in place. You could even ride it on the
> road like that if you were really masochistic.
>
>
> Jamie Swan
> Centerport Cycles Inc.
> Northport, N.Y., U.S.A.
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