on 4/11/09 12:06 PM, Seth Vidal at [email protected] wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Phil B <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Joel, et.al.- >> >> I've seen a pair in person - at White Industries - I was there showing >> them a strange symptom one of my older ENO hubs was diplaying (as it >> turned out it just needed new cartridge bearings). There were two >> bikes, that had shown some use, in the lobby adorned with WI stuff and >> the road bike had their new pedlals. Bee-uttiful stuff they make. >> There were also derailers, canti-brakes, cranks, hubs and all. >> > > Wait a sec: White industries makes derailers and brakes? I'd never > seen them on their site. > > Anyone have any details?
There was a rear derailleur design they showed (~'98?) which was called the LMDS - "Linear Motion Derailleur System": http://www.allproducts.com/usa/whiteind/p04.html It moved on the twin rods rather than using a parallelogram method, with the angle optimized to maintain a 4mm chain gap in all gear. There's also an explanation of the design on page 309 of "The Dancing Chain" (in which author Frank Berto states he was involved with the design phase.) I recall seeing one at Interbike that year, but haven't ever seen one "in the wild". - J -- Jim Edgar [email protected] Cyclofiend Bicycle Photo Galleries - http://www.cyclofiend.com Current Classics - Cross Bikes Singlespeed - Working Bikes "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it." Mahatma Gandhi --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
