Originally Posted by europa

Do any of our older forumites remember those hubs with oil nipple? You flipped up a little cap, added a few drops of oil, then flipped the cap shut. A strip of leather, cunningly joined into a loop with a slit at one end of the strip and a wedge at the other, kept the hub clean by rotating with the wheel and wiping said hub clean. My first three bikes featured these devices and it wasn't until I upgraded in the late seventies that I left such foolishness behind.