I feel I need to add my little bit here.When I started racing in the late 70's in Australia there were very few fully imported bicycles.There were a few fully imported frames,mostly ridden by the top gun riders and if they were imported as a complete bike it was mostly done by the rider's themselves.To the best of my knowledge Australia was too far from anywhere and the market for real racing machines so small that it wasn't a very profitable proposition for most shops to take up. People bought or had a frame built for them and outfitted it with gear from local racing shops.This meant that the equipment fitted to many bikes probably spanned a couple of years as many shops only bought high end stuff when they needed to,ie, after they sold their existing stock.I can still remember seeing a set of Campagnolo bar end shifters sitting on a shelf in one shop long after they went out of style.I should have bought them but hindsight is a wonderful thing.Campagnolo equipment changed so subtly during this period that there was also less demand for this years model when last years worked fine.We weren't really concerned with the date stamped on the stuff so many of us had bikes that from a complete purist's point of view wouldn't be considered to be right.However I do not think that many people would have replaced Campagnolo hoods with Modolo ones when they were being used on Campagnolo brake levers.There is period correct,and lets ask what we mean by the term period, and there is correct. We all have to work out for ourselves what these terms mean and how far we feel compelled to go when it comes to our projects.Just my two cents worth of reflection, Geoff Duke in cold,cloudy Melbourne Australia