Originally Posted by
63rickert
[MENTION=225388]Kontact[/MENTION]
Is this a marketing seminar or just a parallel universe? I just don't recognize any reality in which 126 hubs and 130 hubs are equally strong. Maybe it is the same reality where all 130 hubs have the same flange spacing. Also am puzzled by how you present as having encyclopedic comprehensive and detailed knowledge of everything but are reduced to gleaning tidbits from Velobase and asking the oldtimers here. And you worked for Ron, who would know as much or more about all the things you ask about as any person living. You could simply ask him.
Where did I say the hubs are "equally strong"? I said that the flanges didn't need to change location because the dimensions changed other places. Please quote me.
And I do have "encyclopedic comprehensive and detailed knowledge of everything" - starting around 1988 when I got into cycling at 15 and began working on bikes and reading everything book and catalog I could find. But a considerable amount of bike technology history from the '70s was not really accessible to me, and even though I started working as a mechanic in 1990, the older bikes I repaired didn't come with any date information and I wasn't as interested in them. By the time I was working for Ron in 1994, 1970s road bikes hardly came in the door. I learned more about the older stuff from Colin at Cronometro in Madison when I worked for him just a few years ago.
So that's why I'm asking now - to fill in some of the gaps I realized I had.
I hope that answered your questions, though I don't understand the purpose behind the personal attack. Please answer mine about the "equally strong" hub thing.