Weinmann centerpulls were also used by Rene Herse on his finest bicycles. In Jan Heine's excellent book, "The Golden Age of Handbuilt Bicycles", on ppg 146-147 (Demontable 1971) and ppg. 152-155 (Randonneuse model 1978) the brakes are Weinmanns. I corresponded with Lili Herse in 1977 with an eye to buying a Randonneuse model bicycle that would have been essentially identical to the one on ppg. 152-155. I received a very attractive Herse brochure with individual pages showing the various models, the cover photo was of an all-chrome Randonneuse model with Weinmann brakes. (Unfortunately, the cost of obtaining this bicycle was more than I could readily justify at the time - new baby in the family, etc.).
Jim On Jun 2, 1:24 pm, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 10:09 -0700, b hamon wrote: > > Okay. I've selected the VO fenders. Measuring them against my existing > > brakes it will be an EXTREMELY tight fit. I may be compelled to switch > > over to center-pull brakes, not my favorite in terms of on-the-fly > > adjustment. So far all I've been able to snag around here are a pair > > of the long-reach Dia-Compe 750's, which I guess will work (though the > > pads will sit high and there will be a LOT of metal underneath). > > > I don't have the budget to add braze-ons to my ten-year-old frame (for > > center-pulls OR cantis). Has anyone used these without brazing to the > > frame? Are they any better than the center-pulls of my youth? Is there > > another option which would work better in a similar price range? > > (Finding these used has gotten much harder since folks began doing > > 650b conversions with them...) > > Pretty much, they are the centerpulls of your youth. However, if yours > didn't work very well that probably wasn't the fault of the brakes > themselves, because as brakes they're just fine. Cables and housings > weren't as good then as they are now, and (unless you were an early > Salmon adopter, either with Kool Stops or Matthausers) brake shoes > definitely weren't as good as they are now. Plus, most of those > centerpulls were set up with sucky levers with "safety assist" aka > suicide levers. All in all, you didn't get much of the potential of > those brakes. > > I'm surprised you aren't simply awash in Mafac Racers. They came on so > many trash 10-speeds. And yet, aside from the sucker pads, they're > splendid brakes -- good enough to be used on Rene Herse and Alex > Singers, and on Peter Weigles today. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
