Re: [CR]508 Mile Bicycle Race Offers New Category for Classic, or
Classic Style, Bikes
(Example: History:Norris Lockley)
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:15:48 -0600
From: "Mitch Harris" <mitch.harris@gmail.com>
To: "Dale Brown" <oroboyz@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]508 Mile Bicycle Race Offers New Category for Classic, or
Classic Style, Bikes
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cc: Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
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> - The frame and fork must be lugged steel (but built in ANY year, including
> brand new).
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> - No more than six cogs on the rear wheel.
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> - 32 or more spokes per wheel.
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> - Friction shifting on the down-tube, or bar-cons.
>
> - Toe clips and straps.
>
Sounds great. But why limited to 6 cogs? Maybe I'm remembering wrong
but weren't 7 speeds available in 1983?