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08-15-16 | 06:37 AM

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rhm

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Bikes: 1940s Fothergill, 1959 Allegro Special, 1963? Claud Butler Olympic Sprint, Lambert 'Clubman', 1974 Fuji "the Ace", 1976 Holdsworth 650b conversion rando bike, 1983 Trek 720 tourer, 1984 Counterpoint Opus II, 1993 Basso Gap, 2010 Downtube 8h, and...

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Originally Posted by Darth Lefty

I second the fabric idea. My wife has a circular crochet loom for making tubular things like sleeves and hats and scarves

I believe that's called a "knitting nancy."

I wouldn't put a hub shiner on my bike. I've seen too many hubs scratched up from them. I have a 1940 AW hub that has the chrome worn all the way off, and what's the point of that?

Nonetheless... I wonder if there's a way to make one into a primitive dynamo, a few loops of wire with an LED in it, attach a few magnets to the hub, to have the LED flash every more and then.

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