snipped: e-CHUCKIE wrote, "...In the late seventies and early 1980s there was a brand of cable housing called Cherry or Elephant(?) that was the cat's meow, cutting edge, trendoid cable housing to use, but the thing was that it was slightly undersize in the O.D."
but did it have mojo? btw, it was elephant. e-RICHIE Richard Sachs Cycles No.9, North Main Street Chester, CT 06412 USA http://www.richardsachs.com Tel. 860.526.2059
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:07:04 -0700 Chuck Schmidt
<chuckschmidt@earthlink.net> writes:
> Brian Baylis wrote:
> >
> (cut)
> > "internal der. cable stop"
> (cut)
> > This is the only feature I have ever borrowed from Mario. I still
> do
> > this on many of my frames. It's neat, clean, and pratical as a
> special
> > feature. This is the one thing Mario did that was cool enough to
> copy.
> > Sort of balances out the "cable housing shaver" brake cable
> guides.
>
> Okay then, maybe the Cable Housing Shaver (C.H.S.) cable guides are
> the
> part where "you have to be willing to suffer for fashion."
>
> A little history:
> In the late seventies and early 1980s there was a brand of cable
> housing
> called Cherry or Elephant(?) that was the cat's meow, cutting edge,
> trendoid cable housing to use, but the thing was that it was
> slightly
> undersize in the O.D. When Mario made his custom pointed (looks
> like
> the same point in the pannel of the outer link of a Campagnolo N.R.
> rear
> derailleur for style reference) cable guides it turns out only the
> Cherry cable housing would fit. Makes restoration a real chore!
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> SoPas, SoCal
>
> .