[NMCycling] Fwd: RE: New Old Stock bike parts from the store I sold in NJ in 1987. And a track bike and tandem.

Mon Aug 5 09:54:51 MDT 2019

Forward from an email that came to nmcycling.org

Hawke Morgan
Round About Co.
(505) 259-6885
yourstruly at fastmail.com

----- Original message -----
From: Jim McPhee <jmcphee at comcast.net>
To: 'hawke morgan' <yourstruly at fastmail.com>
Subject: RE: New Old Stock bike parts from the store I sold in NJ in 1987. And a track bike and tandem.
Date: Thursday, August 01, 2019 2:48 PM

Hawke,

Thanks for responding so quickly.

You certainly have my permission for forward my email to the racers mailing list.

Regarding the tubulars width. I don’t even remember having a choice of widths back in the 80s. I suspect all of these are at least 24mm.

 There are two Wolber Invulnerables. I don’t know if you remember them. They were the first attempt, as I recall, at making puncture resistant tubulars. They put a fine wire mesh under the road contact area of the tread. After that came Kevlar, I think.

 There is one cyclocross tubular. It is a French “ALECY cross 400”. For some reason the presta valve core was removed, but I think I have some spares. You probably do too.

 Looks like the other 15 are all “gommaitalia BIT 300 SERVIZIO CORSE”, made in Italy.

Jim McPhee

Placitas, NM

W5ABA

*From:* hawke morgan <yourstruly at fastmail.com> 
*Sent:* Thursday, August 1, 2019 2:26 PM
*To:* Jim McPhee <jmcphee at comcast.net>
*Subject:* Re: New Old Stock bike parts from the store I sold in NJ in 1987. And a track bike and tandem.

There is a bike-racers mailing list that goes out to about 400 folks. I could forward this with your permission. I run tubulars myself. Are any of the tubulars wider than 24mm? Any cyclocross tubulars?

Best Regards,

Hawke Morgan

Round About Co.

(505) 259-6885

yourstruly at fastmail.com

----- Original message -----

From: Jim McPhee <jmcphee at comcast.net>

To: hawke at bcdracing.com

Subject: New Old Stock bike parts from the store I sold in NJ in 1987. And a track bike and tandem.

Date: Thursday, August 01, 2019 2:00 PM

Hawke,

My name is Jim McPhee. I now live in Placitas, but 32 years ago I had a bike store in New Jersey. I sold the store in 1987, and moved to NM in 1988. I brought with me some parts that the buyer of the store was not interested in keeping in the store.

I’ve sold some Campagnolo and other parts on eBay, but I still have some parts that I’d like to share with local riders who might be able to use them. I came across your bcdracing.com site, and thought you might be able to recommend a way to get this information to riders in the area that might be interested. I would like to sell these parts, but I’m not looking to make a fortune on them!

I have 18 training level tubulars/sew-ups. I don’t even know if after all these years they are “rideable”, or if anyone even uses them anymore. They are New Old Stock, never mounted. They have been either hanging up in the garage, or laying loose in a bike carton. They have not been folded. They might look good on a vintage bike with tubular rims.

I have two tubulars that are much better than the others. These are Clement Criterium Seta Colle Main. These have been stretched on rims, and covered with dedicated tire covers the entire time. They have never been glued. They appear to be in perfect condition.

I have three pairs of alloy rims still wrapped in their original wrappers. All 36 hole, I think. One pair of Araya (Japan) “Aero 1” “World Champion” tubular rims, and two pairs of Super Champion clincher type rims. The clincher rims are narrow, but not super narrow. Maybe for 23-25 mm width tires? Not certain about that.

I also have a Fuji Track Bike that I probably put 10 miles on in the 80s at the velodrome in Trexlertown, PA. It’s tall, 24” center of crank to top of top-tube. It has track tubulars mounted, but they are probably not rideable because of the way the bike has been hanging, and they are 30 plus years old as well.

And I’ll mention my Paletti tandem, although this is probably way outside your area of interest. The frame was custom made in Italy by Luciano Paletti to the dimensions I provided, and then I built it up with components as they became available from my suppliers. I would consider it a “light touring” tandem. I doubt it has 200 miles on it; my wife just didn’t get into riding it. It is quite beautiful, I think. I have lot’s of photos of it if you are at all interested.

Thank you for taking the time to read this email, and for taking the time to reply if you are at all interested.

Regards,

Jim McPhee

Placitas, NM

W5ABA

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