Small lange vs. large flange hubs

Bob wrote:

OK... fill me on philosophy on this. Back in the good old days, we
all rode large flange...

....and wore bell bottoms.

I predict that bell bottoms and large flange hubs will both come back
into fashion simultaneously, probably within the next ten years.

Sheldon "Slave Of Fashion" Brown
Newtonville, Massachusetts
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On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 15:46:51 -0400, Sheldon Brown
wrote:

Bob wrote:

OK... fill me on philosophy on this. Back in the good old days, we
all rode large flange...

...and wore bell bottoms.

I predict that bell bottoms and large flange hubs will both come back
into fashion simultaneously, probably within the next ten years.

Sheldon "Slave Of Fashion" Brown

The bell bottoms are already here.

Damn we're old.

Ron



Newtonville, Massachusetts
+-----------------------------------+
| Fashion exists for those people |
| who have no style of their own. |
| --John Moore |
+-----------------------------------+
Harris Cyclery, West Newton, Massachusetts
Phone 617-244-9772 FAX 617-244-1041
http://harriscyclery.com
Hard-to-find parts shipped Worldwide
http://captainbike.com http://sheldonbrown.com

Sheldon Brown wrote:
Bob wrote:

OK... fill me on philosophy on this. Back in the good old days, we
all rode large flange...

...and wore bell bottoms.

I predict that bell bottoms and large flange hubs will both come back
into fashion simultaneously, probably within the next ten years.

Sheldon "Slave" Brown

High-flange hubs have come back on many hubs meant for disc brakes,
such as: http://www.whiteind.com/rx-hubset.htm . I'd still like to find
a set of the Shimano 600EX high-flange cassette hubs as seen he
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/shimano1982/pages/24.html
but only because I'm a weird bike parts freak.

Jeff "But not bell bottoms- that's super-freaky." Wills

try linseed oil on the spoke threads. durable. rustproofing. water
resistant possibbble
proof and gives some twists out resistance not much but some whereas
oil....