Re: [CR]cyclo chain adjuster...?

(Example: Framebuilding:Tubing)

Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:07:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Peter Jourdain" <pjourdain@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]cyclo chain adjuster...?
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>, Tom Martin <tom@voimports.com>
In-Reply-To: <b40b2a3a0810211857p435123d7pbdc696d066425ea2@mail.gmail.com>


Greetings---

Just added some photos. The technical name of the Cyclo chain adjusters (the trademarkable part) is the Cyclo True Track or Tru Track Chain Adjuster. Something like that. I have an ad from Cycling magazine from the '40s that has the proper name. It's funny, as I've never heard anyone use the phrase "Tru Track" or "True Track" when describing them or listing them at auction.

Also included in the photos is a page from the Brown Bros. 1939 catalogue of British cycling parts showing various chain adjusters.

http://s89.photobucket.com/albums/k220/VintageCyclist/Cyclo%20TruTrack%20Chain%20Tensioners/

Hope this helps.

Cheerio,

Peter Jourdain
Whitewater, Wisconsin USA


--- On Tue, 10/21/08, Tom Martin wrote:


> From: Tom Martin <tom@voimports.com>

\r?\n> Subject: [CR]cyclo chain adjuster...?

\r?\n> To: "Classic Rendezvous" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>

\r?\n> Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 9:57 PM

\r?\n> Hello all:

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Does anyone have an extra one or 2 of these lying around,

\r?\n> or some photos of

\r?\n> one?

\r?\n> I've searched the archives but the links on bulgiers

\r?\n> site are dead, and

\r?\n> there no redirects.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> snipped from a conversation in 2006......:

\r?\n>

\r?\n> > Cyclo-pedia 1974 catalog

\r?\n> > "Chain Adjuster (Italy):

\r?\n> >

\r?\n> http://bulgier.net/pics/bike/Catalogs/cyclo-pedia-74/p53%20accessories%202.jpg

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

\r?\n> and this recent photo does not really do it justice- there

\r?\n> is no closeup:

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Cyclo chain adjuster for horizontal dropout:

\r?\n> http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2005/may/AndyWelch.htm

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

\r?\n> I'm very intrigued by this little gadget....

\r?\n>

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Tom Martin

\r?\n> Annapolis MD USA