[CR]RE: CLB Ti(?) Brakeset

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From: "Grant McLean" <Grant.McLean@SportingLife.ca>
To: "Classic Rendezvous Mail List (E-mail)" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]RE: CLB Ti(?) Brakeset
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 12:12:59 -0500

I remember these brakes kicking around the shop I worked at back around '80-81

I believed back in then that the springs on the CLB brakes were Ti.

They sure felt mushy at the levers when you set them up!!

Grant McLean Toronto.ca

Chuck Schmidt wrote: I don't believe these are ti. Logically there would be no reason to make them out of titanium. Titanium is heavier than aluminum and CLB makes (made?) aluminum brakes just like everyone else did beginning in

Kurt Sperry wrote: Another listmember said "These are Ti Calipers. Part of a set of Ti Calipers and Levers that CLB produced in the late 70's (I believe 1978)."The seller says that they are Ti, they LOOK Ti.