This gets more and more interesting.................
Dale is there a page on CR for vintage specs and standards? Is there another place this information should be recorded?
Gene Powell Rad Finishes Portland, Oregon USA
On Sep 29, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Hilary Stone wrote:
> Taylor tandems mostly (but not all) use the French tandem headset
> size. English tandems other than Taylor's mostly used an oversize
> headclip which I think was 1 1/8in. A few later but classic tandems
> from the 50s/60s did use screwed races on the 1 1/8 steerer but I
> don't know what thread standard - I would suspect 24tpi.
>
> Hilary Stone, Bristol, British Isles
>
> M-gineering wrote:
>> Wayne Bingham wrote:
>>> Did Taylor use these? What is Sutherland's referring to when they
>>> mention that "older British tandems use 1-1/8" headsets"? I need to
>>> expand my tandem knowledge.
>> Sutherland lists 28.6 x 26 tpi as an older English tandem size (as
>> used in motorcycles) and the French 28 x 1
>> The Taylors got a lot of stuff fromm france, and Reynolds were
>> making tubes in metric size and not always in the inch-equivalent,
>> so a metric steerer wouldn't surprise me