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1920s cone hubs

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mattsccm:
My project bike, a 1922 Watney, has cycle type cup and cone hubs.  I have never seen a cycle without locknuts but these seem not to have such things. The rear might just have them missing but the front most definitely just stays locked by doing up the wheel nuts in the fork.  Anyone reckon I should be looking for rear locknuts? I do need spacers on the rear axle so there is room for lock nuts.

mini-me:
get some thin nuts on it for safety sake.

I think I used to know this bike, its a Red Barrel? :)

Rex:
Thinking back to the dim and distant past when I used to be interested in push-bikes and these bikes had cup-and-cone hubs, even the most cheap and nasty bike had lock-nuts on the cones, and there were spanners made especially thin to lock and adjust the cones.
Maybe the front legs have just been pulled in by some mug previous owner leaving the locknuts out?
I'd fit them front and rear if I were you.

cardan:

Lots of hubs - even good quality ones - from the early 1920s didn't use locknuts. I've done thousands of miles on bikes without them, with no problem.

Cheers

Leon

iansoady:
I think my Sunbeam Model 10 didn't have lock nuts (at least on the front) but can't quite remember. It was Sunbeam's attempt at cheap and cheerful for the Depression years.

In fact a quick look at the spares list seems to confirm this.

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