Re: [CR]victims of campy marketing

(Example: Racing:Roger de Vlaeminck)

Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 15:27:05 -0700
From: "Brandon Ives" <monkeylad@mac.com>
To: Aldo Ross <swampmtn@siscom.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]victims of campy marketing
cc: Donald Gillies <gillies@cs.ubc.ca>
cc: Donald Gillies

On Tuesday, May 20, 2003, at 11:41AM, Aldo Ross <swampmtn@siscom.net> wrote:
>A correct restoration needs the correct parts, or it's something less.

That's a real strong matter of opinion and with all due respect very narrow minded. The "correct" parts don't necessarily need to be by the catalog stock. First off I've seen, as I'm sure you have, the catalog and the product delivered to the dealer being quite different. How do you choose what's more "correct?" Personally I'd be more interested in a bike where the original owner added a little something to make the bike stand out from the rest of the bikes.

I would agree that a correct restoration should only include parts of the correct era. Of course I don't remember if there were any aftermarket hoods for Campagnolo levers in the early 70s, so it makes the whole hood discussion moot. If there were in fact no aftermarket hoods available the only correct restoration would include original Campagnolo hoods. In the 80s I'd say A'ME or Modolo hoods could be correct and in fact an upgrade from the original. enjoy, Brandon"monkeyman"Ives All my Campy levers have Modolo hoods and most of my RDs have Bullseye pulleys in Santa Barbara, Calif. ++++++++++++++++++++ Nobody can do everything, but if everybody did something everything would get done. --Gil Scott-Heron-- ++++++++++++++++++++