Maybe somebody else has more info... I have never seen other brake pads than the current ones, but then, they all may have been replaced at some stage. That said, the first Rebour drawing of the Racers, from 1952, which was published in Le Cycle with a note that these wonderful new brakes, carefully designed for maximum mechanical advantage, etc., shows the four-dot pads. If they are not 100% the same, they look very close.
Jan Heine, Seattle
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>Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:04:39 EST
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>Subject: [CR]mafac brake shoes
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>greetings
>were all the brakes shoes for mafac
>racers etc,thhe same from the 50s through
>80s
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>thanks
>robbie fellows
>long beach,ca.