Re: [CR]Mafac brake boosters and brazed on bosses

(Example: Events:Cirque du Cyclisme:2002)

From: <Philcycles@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 00:36:30 EST
Subject: Re: [CR]Mafac brake boosters and brazed on bosses
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 3/14/02 11:06:59 AM, mpetry@bainbridgeisland.net writes:

<< I've never tried a bike with Campy brake spindles brazed on... I know Cuevas

and maybe others offered bikes configured like this... my thought was that

the long Campy spindle if brazed on would be vulnerable to damage and would

be expensive to repair (rebraze the fork crown?). But the brazed on

spindles for mafacs are a sweet combination.

>>

Brian Baylis' green curved stay bike has brazed on Campy bolts and Sheldon has made a bike like that as well. My French bike has Mafacs with brazed on pivots and THEY DON'T SQUEEL. Phil Brown