When I apprenticed with a couple different framebuilders, they always called them 'Bosses' or 'Posts'...
http://www.bikeparts.com/pimage/BPC311130.jpg I usually called them something far worse when 'cleaning up' & filing the brazes to smooth. -Scott On May 17, 3:15 pm, Horace <max...@sdf.lonestar.org> wrote: > What where they called when they were sitting around the bike builder's > shop? What was the label on the box that they came in???? Sorry, too amusing > not to ask. > > Horace. > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Patrick in VT <psh...@drm.com> wrote: > > > > > > > On May 17, 3:35 pm, "S.Cutshall" <clotht...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > True, dat... but they attach via cantilever posts [which were > > > originally conceived for attaching cantilever brakes and not > > > centerpulls]. > > > hmm, but if you tried to run cantilever brakes on "these" cantilever > > posts, it wouldn't work out so well. > > > and in that sense, it is perhaps a misnomer to call them "cantilever" > > posts. > > > are there any epistemologists on this list? can a cantilever post > > *be* a cantilever post if a cantilever brake can't be used on it? > > > -- > > 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-bu...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<rbw-owners-bunch%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > -- > 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-bu...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. -- 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-bu...@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.
