Re: [CR]Living with torn brake hoods

(Example: Production Builders:Tonard)

From: <RaleighPro531@aol.com>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 07:30:47 EDT
Subject: Re: [CR]Living with torn brake hoods
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org


In a message dated 5/29/2003 5:38:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mattmatthew@hawaii.rr.com writes:


> The way I figure it -- if I didn't do that, the hoods would have
> eventually torn anyway, the tear getting larger with time. It amazes me
> that for all the well-designed parts of that same era, the hoods were
> the most faulty.

I've used gel type "super glue" on hoods and it seemed to work well.

As for the hoods being the most faulty? I save that for the self adjusting downtube shift levers!

Pete "agitator" Geurds
Douglassville, PA