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Doug Landau

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Oct 16, 2017, 5:13:49 PM10/16/17
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What the HELL is going on with this thing

https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/mcy/d/super-rare-1976-cr-husqvarna/6329612307.html

AMuzi

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Oct 16, 2017, 5:21:38 PM10/16/17
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On 10/16/2017 4:13 PM, Doug Landau wrote:
> What the HELL is going on with this thing
>
> https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/mcy/d/super-rare-1976-cr-husqvarna/6329612307.html
>

Just a dirt racer. Which part caught your eye?

The Akront rims are Spagnoli BTW, same brand used on classic
Zeus and Orbea bicycles

--
Andrew Muzi
<www.yellowjersey.org/>
Open every day since 1 April, 1971


Doug Landau

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Oct 16, 2017, 6:14:38 PM10/16/17
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On Monday, October 16, 2017 at 2:21:38 PM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
> On 10/16/2017 4:13 PM, Doug Landau wrote:
> > What the HELL is going on with this thing
> >
> > https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/mcy/d/super-rare-1976-cr-husqvarna/6329612307.html
> >
>
> Just a dirt racer. Which part caught your eye?
>
> The Akront rims are Spagnoli BTW, same brand used on classic
> Zeus and Orbea bicycles


oops
I think I meant this thing
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bop/d/1940-nos-oscar-egg-bicycle/6341236829.html

AMuzi

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Oct 16, 2017, 6:48:31 PM10/16/17
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It's from this era:
http://www.bikeraceinfo.com/photo-galleries/derailleurs-1.html

Except Swiss/French (not Italian) under his later-famous
SuperChampion brand. Cool guy, very innnovative.

Joerg

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Oct 16, 2017, 7:10:00 PM10/16/17
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It is amazing how fast we forget older technologies. I am regularly
asked by other riders what I am doing down there where the water bottle
is but then not taking a sip. "I am shifting gears" ... "Oh!"

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

jbeattie

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Oct 16, 2017, 8:50:11 PM10/16/17
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Nice find, Doug! I was looking for a NOS Oscar Egg derailleur-ish thing to go with the bee-stinger, butt-cone-of-death on my 1940 TT bike.

-- Jay Beattie.

Doug Landau

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Oct 16, 2017, 9:03:29 PM10/16/17
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LOL Yer still riding a wedgie

Frank Krygowski

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Oct 16, 2017, 9:59:51 PM10/16/17
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On 10/16/2017 6:48 PM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 10/16/2017 5:14 PM, Doug Landau wrote:
>> On Monday, October 16, 2017 at 2:21:38 PM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
>>> On 10/16/2017 4:13 PM, Doug Landau wrote:
>>>> What the HELL is going on with this thing
>>>>
>>>> https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/mcy/d/super-rare-1976-cr-husqvarna/6329612307.html
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Just a dirt racer. Which part caught your eye?
>>>
>>> The Akront rims are Spagnoli BTW, same brand used on classic
>>> Zeus and Orbea bicycles
>>
>>
>> oops
>> I think I meant this thing
>> https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/bop/d/1940-nos-oscar-egg-bicycle/6341236829.html
>>
>>
>
> It's from this era:
> http://www.bikeraceinfo.com/photo-galleries/derailleurs-1.html

It's a reminder how 20-20 hindsight makes solutions obvious. Most modern
cyclists probably think today's gear systems must be the only reasonable
possibility.

But many other schemes were tried before most people settled on
parallelogram derailleurs, tension cable with spring return, and two
sprung jockey wheels for tensioning the chain.

BTW, I've read that the "myth and lore" of the day held that chain
tension must be manually controlled so as to completely minimize it,
because _any_ excess tension in the lower run of chain would slow a
cyclist dramatically.

These days, we don't give that idea a thought. These ideas come and go.

--
- Frank Krygowski

cycl...@gmail.com

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Oct 17, 2017, 9:57:48 AM10/17/17
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On Monday, October 16, 2017 at 3:14:38 PM UTC-7, Doug Landau wrote:
Isn't that Bartoli?

cycl...@gmail.com

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Oct 17, 2017, 10:01:49 AM10/17/17
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Geno was a man of great courage. Since he was a bicycle racer he could be expected to be out riding all over Italy. So he along with a large number of other Catholics would smuggle Jews out of Italy or get them to relatively safe locations. Bartoli would carry the plans and schedules for their movements rolled up in his seatpost. If he had been caught in Fascist and later NAZI controlled Italy he would have been put to death.

avag...@gmail.com

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Oct 17, 2017, 12:46:48 PM10/17/17
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On Monday, October 16, 2017 at 2:13:49 PM UTC-7, Doug Landau wrote:
> What the HELL is going on with this thing
>
> https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/mcy/d/super-rare-1976-cr-husqvarna/6329612307.html

http://powersports.honda.com/2017/crf250l/street.aspx

goo.gl/LXJLQE

that linkage is off an auto

of that era. small light was USA commercially rare...oiloiloil....poss in everything ?

avag...@gmail.com

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Oct 17, 2017, 12:48:48 PM10/17/17
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On Monday, October 16, 2017 at 2:13:49 PM UTC-7, Doug Landau wrote:
> What the HELL is going on with this thing
>
> https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/mcy/d/super-rare-1976-cr-husqvarna/6329612307.html

WTH ? YAWL SAW THE COMMERCIAL ?

quite poss we have ascended...I filed patents at the door.

avag...@gmail.com

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Oct 17, 2017, 1:40:21 PM10/17/17
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https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&q=CRF250L+long+distance+touring&oq=CRF250L+long+distance+touring&gs_l=psy-ab.12...4960.14590.0.16600.25.24.0.0.0.0.298.4326.0j7j13.21.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..4.19.4108.0..0j0i22i30k1j33i160k1j33i21k1.238.Vgo8e047OLo

https://www.google.com/search?q=across+us+dirt+trail&oq=across+us+dirt+trail&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i160k1l2.21003.33198.0.36030.49.28.0.0.0.0.334.4707.0j8j12j1.22.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..28.20.4487.0..0j33i21k1j0i131k1j0i46i67k1j46i67k1j0i67k1j0i10k1j0i22i30k1j0i22i10i30k1j33i22i29i30k1.176.TRaz45Lz5ko

I considered riding the cross dirt route as an adventure …if nothing was happening … I was told the ride is not straight forward as routing goes thru private prop with permission…and common violent redneck problems

Doug Landau

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Oct 17, 2017, 3:14:18 PM10/17/17
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He's a regular on RMD
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