I have a pair of wheels that came on my '72 Manufrance Championnat (a Peugeot PR10L competitor, 531 main frame, Simplex dropouts, 49D cranks, Lyotard pedals, Simplex Criterium gears, etc) and they have EXCELTOO (all caps like that) Super Competition model hubs. French threaded rear and have Pelissier flat (sp?) skewers. Interestingly laced to what seems to be really early original Ambrosio 19 Extra clincher rims.
They seem alright, perhaps a tad better than the basic Normandy hubs that abound, but not a lot. Takes a lot to polish them up.
EXCELTOO it seems to me is not the same as the later Italian Excel brand. At least I don't think they're related.
David Bilenkey Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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> From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org
> [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org]On Behalf Of Tom Hayes
> Sent: February 14, 2003 7:41 PM
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Subject: [CR]Exceltoo hub? French? Quality?
>
>
> I have a set of wheels, the front an old Campagnolo (I don't know how
> old, 1950's is my guess) and the rear has an Exceltoo (written in a
> cool script with a swirl at the end of the last "o") hub. I checked
> the CR site under French and found Excel (I assume it's the same as
> this) but there was no link beyond the listing of Excel (not
> complaining, please note, only explaining).
>
> My question is whether this hub is French, whether it's quality or
> not (right now it's covered with grime and grease from about thirty
> years of sitting around). The skewer was Campagnolo and I wonder if
> there were Excel (too?) skewers, and if there were, what's the
> likelihood of finding one?
>
> I used to ask Scott Davis all my French questions and not bother the
> list with them, but I have had a series of computer crashes (am I
> explaining too much: he protests too much as Hamlet says) wiping out
> all addresses and am only slowly rebuilding the address book.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Cheers.
>
> tom
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> Tom Hayes
> 18585 Munn Road
> Chagrin Falls, Ohio 44023
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