Re: [CR] was 700c timeline ... now (not so) obsolete 28" designation for tubulars

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Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:15:50 +0100
From: "M-gineering" <info@m-gineering.nl>
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR] was 700c timeline ... now (not so) obsolete 28" designation for tubulars


Jan Heine wrote:
>
> In Germany, traditionally, 700C bikes have been called "28 Zoll" or "28
> inches." Maybe a German listmember will have some info why this was.
> 700C is a French designation. Here we used 28 x 1 5/8 x 1 1/4" etc


> When I was growing up in Germany, there were plentiful supplies of older
> bikes from the 1950s and 1960s - not ligthweights, but what the British
> called "sit up and beg" bikes. Most were "26 inch" (does this correspond
> to the modern 559 mm size?)

No, these were probably 590mm, 26 x 1 3/8

btw there are about half a dozen diferent 20" sizes around, not two

-- mvg

Marten Gerritsen
Kiel Windeweer
Netherlands