On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 14:40 -0700, Jim Cloud wrote: > Weinmann centerpulls were also used by Rene Herse on his finest > bicycles. In Jan Heine's excellent book, "The Golden Age of Handbuilt > Bicycles", on ppg 146-147 (Demontable 1971) and ppg. 152-155 > (Randonneuse model 1978) the brakes are Weinmanns. I corresponded > with Lili Herse in 1977 with an eye to buying a Randonneuse model > bicycle that would have been essentially identical to the one on ppg. > 152-155. I received a very attractive Herse brochure with individual > pages showing the various models, the cover photo was of an all-chrome > Randonneuse model with Weinmann brakes. (Unfortunately, the cost of > obtaining this bicycle was more than I could readily justify at the > time - new baby in the family, etc.).
I didn't intend to cast aspersions on the Weinmanns. I had them on my Paramount for 20 years and thought they were fine brakes that left nothing to be desired. But I don't remember there being so many Weinmanns on really crappy trash bike-boom 10-speeds. There were some really skanky ones, and I seem to recall them mostly coming with Mafac Racers. It's the "skanky to sublime" that I find so noteworthy. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
