Could it really be orange?

[udallcustombikes]

 

[1manta]

Needle in a haystack :?: Looks cool.

 

[scrumblero]

what was orange mean?? :?

 

[CCR]

karfer had a green one on his cycle truck build off bike

 

[udallcustombikes]

what was orange mean?? :?

Along with yellow, red, and blue, is the legendary orange band 2 speeds. The story that has been passed down from the old Bendix factory says there are 3 orange band hubs out there somewhere.

One of the new employees kept having things go wrong and was worried about keeping his job. This was early 60's, and Bendix was just starting to change from red band 2 speed hubs to the new yellow and blue band hubs. The new guy was trying hard to do a good job, but was trying too hard and accidentally spilled the new yellow paint into an old can of red. Everyone else had left for lunch, so he hurried up and painted 4 dozen hubs with the mixed paint so they wouldn't notice the waste of paint. He hung them up to dry and then started filling orders. A few small vendors showed up and he loaded them up as they waited. A large truck for the Detroit shipment showed up. That would take the rest of the hubs he had painted, then no one would know the better. He had the big truck almost loaded when the foreman came in. He was just about to commend the new guy on a good job when he noticed the orange paint on the last few hubs. After a quick chewing out, they had to get all those hubs back. They unloaded the Detroit truck and called up the local vendors to return the defective hubs. Then they did inventory to be sure. Someone didn't return all the hubs, and they couldn't track it down, because the new guy didn't write down exactly how many hubs went to the local vendors. But they had 3 hubs unaccounted for after recounting twice.

Poor guy lost his job, and there are 3 orange band 2 speed hubs out there somewhere.

 

[vibr8shun]

I hope for your sake its not a re-stripe with 1shot...the only way to be sure would be a chemical analysis of a paint sample I guess :roll:

 

[SCHWINNRAY69]

I have red on my Firestone :wink: It's so old though, that it fell off

 

[udallcustombikes]

I have red on my Firestone :wink: It's so old though, that it fell off

I have a red band on my Flatliner bike. The red on it had flaked and crusted as well. I raided the wifey's nail polish to find the right color to repaint it.

 

[Wildcat]

I was going to ask if you wanted to sell it, until I looked in the background, at the orange paint can! LOL!

It looks good though. I will continue my search for the real McCoy.

 

[udallcustombikes]

The can in the background with the syringe on top is my grease. I had just finished rebuilding it. And it will not be for sale at the moment.

 

[Wildcat]

How about now, for sale yet? 36 hole? The 2 hubs I checked at the old junkyard were both yellow band, so I'm still looking.

 

[B607]

I've worked in enough factories to know that the orange band story is total BS. Nice new orange paint on your hub. The orange banded 2 speed hub you are looking for is on a bike being ridden by a large unicorn. Gary

 

[Wildcat]

Then I guess the purple band 2 speed hub story won't fly either. (a year after the orange band mishap, another employee accidentally mixed the new red band and blue band paint together)