Re: [CR] Fixed gear = stiff hub?

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To: <CoxT@MillerCanfield.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 09:56:26 -0400
In-Reply-To: <99B9511895591E4991936AA16BF2AE9A0EFD88E387@ex3dembx.mcps.com>
From: <r7glm@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CR] Fixed gear = stiff hub?


I remember that.

But then again I was racing at Kenosha (and Northbrook) at the time, so it may have been a local colloquialism.

Rex Gilmore Vienna, VA

-----Original Message----- From: Cox, Thomas R. <CoxT@MillerCanfield.com> To: 'classicrendezvous@bikelist.org' <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 9:27 am Subject: [CR] Fixed gear = stiff hub?

Does anyone remember people in the 50s and 60s calling a fixed-gear bike a "stiff hub"? Or was that a Kenosha, Wisconsin velodrome peculiarity? Or my faulty memory?

Tom Cox Detroit (Home of the Big 3 and Final 4), Michigan USA

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