[Jeff Higgins]

Wow Bob, I guess it's really been that long ago that Dreer was showing his bikes around. Seems like yesterday. He used to bring one to the ALMS races when they were still held at PIR, as well as the CART races, the Rose Cup, and the Historics. I remember Cycle World was raffling one off for a year or so; they brought one to the Seattle bike show that year. I bought a lot of tickets...

Yeah, Les, these things do shake. They are truly their own worst enemy. Everything has to be loctited, nylocked, safety wired, or zip tied. Sometimes all four. And then, even if you can manage to keep it on the bike, it will likely fail at some point from the beating it takes. Especially if ridden hard, with the revs kept up. It's really not so bad just cruising, if the revs are kept under 3,000 or so. But jeezus does it shake when you rev it up.

You can see in the video where it smooths out noticably after an upshift, and then gets worse and worse as revs climb. I was shifting at about 6,000 to 6,500 revs. I actually thought I had more footage than that, as I didn't turn the camera off for about another ten minutes. Seems it gave up on its own - didn't take long. I'm not sure how much of that my poor little Contour HD will take. Hell, I'm not so sure how much of that I can take anymore myself. I'm not as tough as I (used to think) I was...