Re: Vibration when braking - Rolf Vigor

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:31:06 +0000, jobst.brandt wrote:

> I notice that Rolf claims to be the inventor of the 1890 patented wheel of
> R.S. Lovelace. (See Andrew Ritchie's "King of the Road".)
>
> # Rolf Dietrich is the inventor of the paired-spoke bicycle wheel #
> design.
>
> Paired-spoke wheels vanished from bicycling more than 100 years ago for
> good reason.

It may be so, but my Rolfs seem to work fine in spite of themselves.

I had my reservations at first, considering selling them on eBay and
putting the proceeds toward "real" wheels. But I have several thousand
miles on them now with no problems. I did rebuild them once, but the
problem there was lack of stress-relieving, etc., and not design.

Matt O.

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