Hello Healey listers. I have not participated here in quite some time, but
every several months I take a peak in a sampling of digests. I just did that
today and happened to see the Derrington steering wheel discussed. Since
there was a post where someone pointed folks to a blog of mine on the
subject, I could ignore, but thought I would address some comments in the
hope of clearing up understandings. And I should also thank several people
for the kind commends regarding my work. I have copied below text from
three messages that contained errors that I thought I should address. Since
list messages have limits in size, I have made that response a blog on my
site. Please go here for my response:
http://www.pbase.com/mdlempert/healeylistersblog
Regards,
Mike Lempert
> Regarding someone suggesting the Moto-Lita wheels Moss sells as possibly
> being incorrect, weren't the Moto-Lita wheels period dealer or owner
> installed accessories on the production big Healeys? And who's to say
> which
> styles - spoke angles, diameters, rivet numbers, etc., the dealers would
> choose to sell back in the day?
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> I checked the Mota Lita sight after my initial email and Derek is correct
> the image of the Derrington Wheel they have on their Web site is a dead
> image of the original wheel with the correct spoke spacing
>
> The only discernable difference I could see from the original wheel was
> the
> number of rivets holding the timber hand grips on the wheel have been
> reduced by 6 to 12 rather than the original wheels 18
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>Mike Lempert's wheels are no doubt very nice but its the Moto Lita that
>are
>the accurate design and representative of the ones used back in the day.
>Moto Lita make many different styles and if people have one that does not
>have the three equally spaced spokes then they have bought the wrong model.
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