Re: [CR]re: Mondia Special brakes

(Example: Framebuilders:Pino Morroni)

From: "James A Narlesky" <jim@alandavid.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
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Subject: Re: [CR]re: Mondia Special brakes
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 13:51:32 -0800


Charles Andrews : <chasds@mindspring.com> wrote on: Thursday, January 09, 2003 12:56 PM Subject: [CR]re: Mondia Special brakes


> In the early 70s I shopped at a bike shop in Honolulu that carried Mondia
> Specials as a stock item. Every one I saw--and I saw quite a few of
> them--(which the shop got straight from the factory--or from the importer,
> anyway)--had Mafac Racers as the stock brake. I don't doubt that Mondia used
> other brakes as whim or market dictated (or as retailers or importers
> requested) but during the time I saw them (1971-1975 or so) they all had
> Mafacs.

As I had previously stated in a post regarding Sugden & Lynch Bicycle Shop in Menlo Park, CA, I not only used to visit the shop quite regularly, but also spent many hours peering in the windows after they were closed over a period of several years. My first properly fitting, quality bike was a Mondia Special that I purchased in 1969, and it like all of the other Mondias that I had seen from that shop had Mafac "Racer" brakes. I concur with Charles.

Regards,

Jim Narlesky
San Jose, CA