spokes from hell

Dear Jobst,

I was browsing in the unfamiliar road motorcycle world and found these strange spokes:

http://www.buchananspokes.com/HDSpokes.htm

I thought that you might like to see that no matter how bad things are in the bicycle world, they
could be worse.

Carl Fogel

 

On 20 Feb 2004 19:20:52 -0800, [email protected] (Carl Fogel)
wrote:

>Dear Jobst,
>
>I was browsing in the unfamiliar road motorcycle world and found these strange spokes:
>
> http://www.buchananspokes.com/HDSpokes.htm
>
>I thought that you might like to see that no matter how bad things are in the bicycle world, they
>could be worse.
>
>Carl Fogel

Uh.....

http://www.sapim.be/en/twist.htm

 

On 20 Feb 2004 19:20:52 -0800, [email protected] (Carl Fogel)
wrote:

>Dear Jobst,
>
>I was browsing in the unfamiliar road motorcycle world and found these strange spokes:
>
> http://www.buchananspokes.com/HDSpokes.htm
>
>I thought that you might like to see that no matter how bad things are in the bicycle world, they
>could be worse.

Actually, my favorites were shown on a recent "American Chopper"; barbed wire spokes.

jeverett3<AT>earthlink<DOT>net http://home.earthlink.net/~jeverett3

 

didn't think they're made them any more. i called their u.s. distributor a while back and was told
that they'd been dropped due to lack of demand.

Dan Daniel wrote:
> On 20 Feb 2004 19:20:52 -0800, [email protected] (Carl Fogel) wrote:
>
>
>>Dear Jobst,
>>
>>I was browsing in the unfamiliar road motorcycle world and found these strange spokes:
>>
>> http://www.buchananspokes.com/HDSpokes.htm
>>
>>I thought that you might like to see that no matter how bad things are in the bicycle world, they
>>could be worse.
>>
>>Carl Fogel
>
>
>
> Uh.....
>
> http://www.sapim.be/en/twist.htm

 

Dan Daniel <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> On 20 Feb 2004 19:20:52 -0800, [email protected] (Carl Fogel) wrote:
>
> >Dear Jobst,
> >
> >I was browsing in the unfamiliar road motorcycle world and found these strange spokes:
> >
> > http://www.buchananspokes.com/HDSpokes.htm
> >
> >I thought that you might like to see that no matter how bad things are in the bicycle world, they
> >could be worse.
> >
> >Carl Fogel
>
>
> Uh.....
>
> http://www.sapim.be/en/twist.htm

Dear Dan,

I really like the inspired claims for those spiral twist spokes in that ad:

--Makes for very smooth and shock-absorbing wheels --The TWIST prevents the nipples from
coming loose.

Presumably, they could also be broken in the field and used for really crude drill bits.

Thanks for an entertaining link.

Carl Fogel

 

John Everett <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> On 20 Feb 2004 19:20:52 -0800, [email protected] (Carl Fogel) wrote:
>
> >Dear Jobst,
> >
> >I was browsing in the unfamiliar road motorcycle world and found these strange spokes:
> >
> > http://www.buchananspokes.com/HDSpokes.htm
> >
> >I thought that you might like to see that no matter how bad things are in the bicycle world, they
> >could be worse.
>
> Actually, my favorites were shown on a recent "American Chopper"; barbed wire spokes.
>
>
> jeverett3<AT>earthlink<DOT>net http://home.earthlink.net/~jeverett3

Dear John,

I'm disappointed. The color is wrong:

http://groups.msn.com/OCCOrangeCountyChoppersAFanSite/powmiabike.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=756

Carl Fogel

 

>> On 20 Feb 2004 19:20:52 -0800, [email protected] (Carl Fogel)
>> wrote:
>>> I was browsing in the unfamiliar road motorcycle world and found these strange spokes:
>>> http://www.buchananspokes.com/HDSpokes.htm I thought that you might like to see that no matter
>>> how bad things are in the bicycle world, they could be worse.

> Dan Daniel wrote:
>> Uh....>> http://www.sapim.be/en/twist.htm

>>jim beam wrote:
> didn't think they're made them any more. i called their u.s. distributor a while back and was told
> that they'd been dropped due to lack of demand.

in Lowrider sizes they are readily available (we sell them) WIth 72 spokes in a 20" wheel, nothing
about the spoke matters much.

--
Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971

 

A Muzi wrote:
WIth 72
> spokes in a 20" wheel, nothing about the spoke matters much.

Jeepers. I guess if a spoke had sharp edges, you'd cut the heck out of your hands trying to work in
those tiny spaces. Surely the strength of the individual spoke is unimportant.

Dave dvt at psu dot edu

 

On 22 Feb 2004 19:30:54 -0800, [email protected] (Carl Fogel) may
have said:

>Dan Daniel <[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:<[email protected]>...
>> On 20 Feb 2004 19:20:52 -0800, [email protected] (Carl Fogel) wrote:
>>
>> Uh.....
>>
>> http://www.sapim.be/en/twist.htm
>
>Dear Dan,
>
>I really like the inspired claims for those spiral twist spokes in that ad:
>
>--Makes for very smooth and shock-absorbing wheels --The TWIST prevents the nipples from
>coming loose.
>
>Presumably, they could also be broken in the field and used for really crude drill bits.
>
>Thanks for an entertaining link.

To me, the most entertaining piece of doublespeak was this one:

"SAPIM ADVANCED COLD FORGING TECHNOLOGY (SCFT) increases the tensile strength of the middle section
of Sapim spokes(1080-1180N/mm²) by up to min. 48%. "

Excuse me? "...up to min. 48%"? This does not parse.

--
My email address is antispammed; pull WEEDS if replying via e-mail.
Typoes are not a bug, they're a feature.
Words processed in a facility that contains nuts.

 

> A Muzi wrote:
> WIth 72
>> spokes in a 20" wheel, nothing about the spoke matters much.

dvt wrote:
> Jeepers. I guess if a spoke had sharp edges, you'd cut the heck out of your hands trying to work
> in those tiny spaces. Surely the strength of the individual spoke is unimportant.

The spoke wrench looks like a motorcycle spoke wrench or the one used on wire auto wheels. Reaches
from the side. No room to turn a regular wrench in there.

--
Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1 April, 1971