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roadbuzz
05-09-02, 08:45 AM
I stumbled across this archive and thought it might be of general interest. Many of the articles are submissions by Jobst Brandt, the cyclists cyclist, engineers engineer, curmudgeon extrordinaire, and author of The Bicycle Wheel.
http://yarchive.net/bike/index.html

ljbike
05-09-02, 10:39 AM
Thanks! Roadbuzz. His Bicycle Wheel book was my bible when learning how to build wheels. I think he used to have a frame building school, maybe still does, where he took only two students at a time. I know there is a book and a video on frame building still available by him.
John E
05-09-02, 01:00 PM
This is an excellent website. I know Jobst Brandt from Sheldon's Bicycle Science email server; the man is a bicycle technogeek, in the positive sense.

I particularly enjoyed the 1996 thread about force-threading an English BB into a "presumably French" [sic -- actually Swiss] threaded Peugeot BB shell, since I did the same thing with my Peugeot several years ago out of desperation and have had no problems with it, even though the practice is decidedly non-Kosher. I also disagree with the data concerning the relative populations of bottom brackets, believing that English thread is increasingly more common than Italian.