Re: [CR]Jack Taylor's Really Large Flange Rear Hub

(Example: Framebuilders:Jack Taylor)

Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 08:08:37 +0200
From: "M-gineering" <info@m-gineering.nl>
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]Jack Taylor's Really Large Flange Rear Hub
References: <JJEEKLDDELHGFDGDBELBEECDGIAA.avitzur@013.net.il>
In-Reply-To:


Amir Avitzur wrote:
> The rear hub on Jack's tandem is super-high flange.
> This enables spokes to be changed without removing the freewheel.
>

it's a drumbrake
> Who made those hubs?

Atom?
> Did any other company make them?
>
> Why are there so few examples of such hubs?

are there?
> Did flanges crack ... did spokes break more often?
>
> I ask because the biggest pain with riding old bikes is changing a drive
> side spoke on the road.
>

emergency spoke?

-- mvg

Marten Gerritsen
Kiel Windeweer
Netherlands