What's wrong with this picture?
10-24-20 | 08:35 PM
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What's wrong with this picture?
Manufacturing defect? Human error? Practical joke?
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10-24-20 | 09:43 PM
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From: A different place and time.
10-24-20 | 09:49 PM
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well, that's gonna slow you down 
10-24-20 | 09:59 PM
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Anyone else have any oddities to share?
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"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girl friends. And they tolerated it and let us go ahead and play with our toys." Orson Welles
10-24-20 | 10:01 PM
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Um, no.
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"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girl friends. And they tolerated it and let us go ahead and play with our toys." Orson Welles
10-24-20 | 10:03 PM
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10-25-20 | 02:59 AM
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The Gipiemme branding on the wuick release lever is facing inwards??
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10-25-20 | 04:36 AM
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I had a set of Weinmann brake lever hoods for a Raleigh Super Course, on which they installed the Carlton logo insert upside down, in the mold. I've posted about these before. Now all I have to do is find the old photograph. In some hobbies, rare variations are worth big dollars to collectors but that doesn't seem to the case with cycling.
10-25-20 | 08:45 AM
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Well, okay, then. To the title of the thread, and the first photo, i was going to say... the rim appears to be yellow (
).
But now i see there are more aesthetic issues here than could be gleaned from the first picture.
Of course that's just a matter of taste, and i understand my opinion on the subject is completely irrelevant.
).But now i see there are more aesthetic issues here than could be gleaned from the first picture.
Of course that's just a matter of taste, and i understand my opinion on the subject is completely irrelevant.
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10-25-20 | 09:52 AM
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It had nothing to do with the wheel build. It's a factory QC issue. The only way to have the logo readable from the back of the bicycle would have been to install the hub with the freewheel on the non-drive side. Then there would have been bigger issues.
10-25-20 | 11:03 AM
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Good guess though
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"If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girl friends. And they tolerated it and let us go ahead and play with our toys." Orson Welles
10-25-20 | 11:21 AM
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The branding is actually the same on both sides of the lever.
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10-25-20 | 12:02 PM
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I was going to suggest that. Or just turn the wheel the other way.
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10-25-20 | 03:31 PM
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10-25-20 | 05:01 PM
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^^^^ Obviously the builder anticipated that bike being hung upside down by hooks in someone's garage by 1980, not to be taken down until some far-off future dystopic pandemic.
These belong in the thread with the "STURMY ARCHER" hub, and the "MADE IN JTALY" stem.
These belong in the thread with the "STURMY ARCHER" hub, and the "MADE IN JTALY" stem.
