Skip tooth sprockets

[johnbryanpeters]

In another post far, far away, the inimitable Big Game mentioned skip-tooth sprockets.

It just happened that last weekend or so I was ogling an old solid-tire kid's bike and it had a skip-tooth sprocket with asymmetrically spaced rollers on the chain: two rollers, wait a while, two rollers, ...

I rooted around on the web a bit and found some fascinating stuff on chain history (chain manufacturers had to diversify to survive when the bike boom went bust around 1900), I couldn't find anything on the skip-tooth design.

Does the skip-tooth setup date the bike? If so, to roughly what period?

J

[gungywump]

JBP

Skip tooth sprockets are a pre WWII phenomenon. I think up to 1946-47.
Post WWII are conventional sprockets.

I'm sure there are exceptions, as to any rule.

[Big Game]

In another post far, far away, the inimitable Big Game mentioned skip-tooth sprockets.


I was just about to attempt to suffer your self-esteem, Mr johnbryanpeters. But then I looked up what "inimitable" meant. Webster's defines it as "too good to be succesfully imitated."

I must say, you flatter me. I sincerely appreciate your kind words.

However, I assure I can be easily imitated. Simply ask yourself, "what would a well-grounded person do?" Then do the opposite. Add a healthy dose of obscure, and truly absurd (perhaps fictional), historical references and then you will have created another Big Game to call your very own.

I will ask you to take special care of your Big Game, as although he can be very coarse, this abrasive exterior is only a defense from the barbs of a world that he does not understand. Deep down, he only wants to share the wonders of the universe with you. I simply ask you to reach out a little bit; you shall be rewarded.

Your Pal,

Big Game

[turch]

That confirms it...He's baack!

[Big Game]

Oh yes...about the topic. I don't know too much about skip-tooth chains (except I knows one when I sees one), but my cousin had a 1913 (or something) Pope Motorcycle (manufactured in Springfield, Mass.) , which was a basketcase. But it was skip-tooth.

Oh, if you're a collector of old motorcycles, you're too late to buy my cousin's. He traded it for an original WWII Indian. Who do you think made out the best of that deal?

[johnbryanpeters]

Oh yes...about the topic. I don't know too much about skip-tooth chains (except I knows one when I sees one), but my cousin had a 1913 (or something) Pope Motorcycle (manufactured in Springfield, Mass.) , which was a basketcase. But it was skip-tooth.

Oh, if you're a collector of old motorcycles, you're too late to buy my cousin's. He traded it for an original WWII Indian. Who do you think made out the best of that deal?

You might or might not get a kick out of the 1910ish 500 cc Curtiss engine sitting in the hall outside my office or the Matchless G15CS sitting in the garage...

But, to one of the topics, thanks, gungywump, I was wondering if anyone was going to reply.

And to another topic, Big Game, if you were to suffer my self-esteem, could you stand it? Or were you considering causing my self-esteem to suffer, in which case I would have had the option of suffering the suffering of my - well, you know how this could continue... And again, of course, if I offered my self-esteem sufferage, you could suffer while it voted (with itself?) whether to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous Big game. Or was that outraged Big Game? Oh, yeah, he forewent the outrage, having sought definite definition. But that's how the game goes, doesn't it? Or does it?

Yours,

St. Throckmorton of assizes.

[Big Game]

And to another topic, Big Game, if you were to suffer my self-esteem, could you stand it? Or were you considering causing my self-esteem to suffer, in which case I would have had the option of suffering the suffering of my - well, you know how this could continue... And again, of course, if I offered my self-esteem sufferage, you could suffer while it voted (with itself?) whether to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous Big game. Or was that outraged Big Game? Oh, yeah, he forewent the outrage, having sought definite definition. But that's how the game goes, doesn't it? Or does it?

Yours,

St. Throckmorton of assizes.


My attempt implies that an effort be made on your part to allow your self-esteem to be suffered by my caustic prose. I can really only attempt; I can't directly cause your self-esteem to suffer, as you must be a willing partner to that task.

I see now, that I am indeed fortunate that I did not attempt to suffer your self-esteem (I would have said something akin to "May your master lead you to a briar patch for you to sleep for enternity so that we may spared from your infinite void which the universe has been force to endure"). This attempt would be futile, as I can see that you would not be agreeable to a partnership in which you were to directly cause your self-esteem to suffer.

My dad found a skip-tooth bikeframe in the woods in Cheshire sometime in the 70's. It was rusty and beyond hope. He kept it in the garage. As a child, I was scared by the sight of it. But I'm over it now. I took in in the back yard last night and I lit the thing on fire with kerosine and watched it melt to nothing.

Unfortunately, the fire spread to a near-by factory. I guess a lot of people worked there. So, you can understand why the community is so upset with me. Don't worry, I'll write to you when I get out in 10-20 years.

Your Pal,

Big Game

[johnbryanpeters]

Dear Mr Game, Big,

I actually prefer kerocosine for my arsonic offerings. It is ninety degrees out of phase with kerosine and is more pleasing to the entropy nymphs. When you get out, please remember to examine carefully the melt patterns of the skip-tooth sacrifice for a deep message from our sponsors.

As for the factory workers- they were onionized, therefore bloating Hart literals, so do not deign to feel sorrow for their fate. They will be redeemed and uplifted by Texas breaks, and join the ranks of the anointed publicans.

Thats malt, folks!

J