Re: [CR]What sort of hubs are these?

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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 23:42:33 -0400
To: Bikerdaver@aol.com, jtagli1@uic.edu, Classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
From: "Sheldon Brown" <CaptBike@sheldonbrown.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]What sort of hubs are these?


Quoth Dave Anderson:
>Can't say that the guy who is selling them has any idea of what sort of hubs
>they are either. His> ebay title indicates some "campagnolo" item or some
>> "campagnolo era" item for sale. Both of those issues have no ring of truth.
>> One can only assume that they rest of his ebay ad is also false. Its ads
>> like these that give ebay a questionable name. But then again, he has over
> > 317 positive remarks. So it goes?

The use of "Campagnolo" as a keyword to designate exotic high-end road parts is a well-established custom on eBay, and I don't consider it deceptive at all. Indeed, I recently bought a Hetchins frame that was listed as: "Rare Hetchins Curly Bicycle Frame Campagnolo".

I don't know what the hubs are either, they don't look like Hi-Es I've seen, but there were multiple variants of these, and I believe that the seller is being straight in his or her description. Too bad there isn't a close up of one of the rims, might be possible to tell something from that. I would mention that, in the '70s, 32 spoke wheels were considered radical exotica.

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