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Technical & Reference Section => Tech and Restoration => Topic started by: dwain dibbly on January 01, 2008, 02:09 PM

Title: early landing gears??
Post by: dwain dibbly on January 01, 2008, 02:09 PM

did the very first landing gears have no holes
at all in the drop outs??
is there a way to tell if they are genuine?

Title: Re: early landing gears??
Post by: daz bmx it! on January 01, 2008, 04:17 PM

no holes and unstamped :daumenhoch:

Title: Re: early landing gears??
Post by: CD17 on January 01, 2008, 04:42 PM

So what year did stamped LGs come out  ???

As Iv got a Nos Chrome Pair  :)

Title: Re: early landing gears??
Post by: harris on January 01, 2008, 04:44 PM

im not 100% but 1985 rings a bell maybe 86

Title: Re: early landing gears??
Post by: Bigplinky on January 01, 2008, 05:39 PM

From what I can gather there's two types of stamping (depends on which way the SE letters run). Earliest stamped 85 (goes with straight chainstay non loop tail frames) then the more common version after that 86 on. Anybody got pictures to clear this up.

Title: Re: early landing gears??
Post by: davie1967 on January 02, 2008, 07:03 PM

I have a set of landing gear unstamped with 3 holes in dropouts? must be about 1982 ish?