quote:Originally posted by Joules:
There were at least 3 types of these wheels in long rib and short rib, so "not looking exactly original" may be dependent on which style you are looking at.
Marvic does a great job of sand casting these to original specs and cost is $3,400 per pair. 40 year old magnesium wheels are a crap shoot IMO, pure roll of the dice.
Julian
Yep. Who knows which of the three were actually "the original" versions?
Just having discovered a set with NO gussets tends to make me think that THOSE are the FIRST version.
The second version being the full gussets.
The third being the one long, one short gussets.
Maybe one set might be more desirable to one particular buyer but that is really subjective at best.
There just isn't enough known to call one "original" vs. another type. Just three different versions.
Frankly the full gussets are not the most attractive to me. The ones without any gussets make more design sense. Those are the ones that I have too.
Mine ARE NOT date coded but have them since the mid '80s. Maybe they are an early set of Hall's "continuation" 10's? Who knows?
Gary told me that these were "the original" type . I took his word for it.
The plain ones may be the most fragile though? The gussets were added for a reason and the reason is strength reinforcement, not esthetic beauty.
If you look at the wheels closely, they appear to show some evidence that the mold for the 8" wheel was altered with a 2" spacer.
Someone might have found out the hard way that under the stress of racing, the wheel would crack in that area and the decision was made to reinforce them with gussets?
That's how I would speculate them.