The International Club for Moultoneers
Check out this new blog http://hubstripping.wordpress.com/ - only a few posts so far, but it contains some excellent info on stripping a Duomatic hub.
Makes me want to go home and start stripping an old hub gear I've got lying around.
Keep up the good work Marco!
Thanks to Chris Mahon, here's a video that shows how the new large bag attaches to the large rack on the Pashley Moulton TSR.
After the meeting, members could try out any of the Moulton models.
There were three samples of the Esprit, a Bridgestone, a Double Pylon and an older New Series...
The test track was just too small for the Metro...
This NS had nice narrow flat bars and indexed trigger shifters...
The Double Pylon looks even more exquisite in real life than in any photo you've ever seen...
Two Double Pylons in a corner...
New Style Flexitor unit of the Double Pylon. Having the forks outside the Flexitor unit (instead of inside as with earlier New Series models) gives more steering rake for a more stable ride.
The Demo bike had the softest of the available rubber compounds, so the soft lockout was engaged for demo riders...
Alex Moulton and the MBC experts called for examples of each model from the first Standard to the present day from which they judged the best example of each - usually the most original and well maintained. They scrutinised each model in such detail, that they ran out of time at the AM-GT.
Below are a few shots that took my fancy.
The need for speed...
Paul Grogan's Speedsix skips into view...
These gorgeous Speedsixes lost out because their mudguards weren't original...
This one had the original alloy guards...
A lovely blue Moulton S Safari...
And an S Stowaway...
But winner of the S-class was this immaculate chrome S Safari, owned by Ken Butterfield
Lovely rear end...
The crowed oohed and ahhed at the sight of shiny chrome...
Mike Woolf's completely original Moulton S Deluxe was not eligible, due to being a Moulton Preservation bike...
Alex Moulton told some of the history of the S-Works, and the work of Jack Lauterwasser...
Can't read the decals from here, but I think this was a Series 2 Deluxe...
Mike Woolf described the Raleigh era of this Mark 3 as a "mixed blessing...
On to the Alex Moulton era and the AM 7...
Alex Moulton described how the F-frame evolved into the Y-frame prototype, which eventually led to the X-frame - the basic shape of the spaceframe AM.
He recounted feeling distraught when some French club racers told him the Y-frame was wonderful, but too heavy. This led him to develop a frame structure that was entirely different to anything that went before.
Here is a lovely AM2...
Checking a serial number on an AM Speed...
Finally, the AM-GT... the first stainless steel model. Alex Moulton talked about how wonderful a material stainless steel was, and alluded to the skill of the silver brazers at Bradford on Avon. He told the owner of this AM-GT that stainless steel lasts forever, and he would pass the bike on to his great grandchildren.
The wider frame and narrower tubing give a frame that's lighter, yet stiffer...
HED aero wheels only 2 ozs heavier than standard wheels...
Shimano 105 chainring and rear mech, Capreo freehub and cassette, Ultegra front mech (except on the model with the Mosquito bars which had a single chainring)...
Mosquito bars, Shimano Dura Ace downtube shifer (used as a thumb shifer), Cane Creek reverse action brake levers and a newly blackened stem...
Tapered forks, but not like the 1980s...
The fixed frame frame was not on show... all three demo bikes were separable...
