Charles T. Young wrote: <snip>
I have a set of ttt city bars mated to a ttt Gran Prix stem so probably '70's production. The bars have a flat moustache shape (no rise or drop). What type of levers would have been used and how would they have been placed? <snip> ############## Over the years, I've accumulated a small pile of Weinmann (and DiaCompe) tourist levers for upright bars. Also a few Mafacs, which came in lots of permutations (perversions?) including straight lever and curved lever designed for mounting on the tops of randonneur bars, with lever parts in either aluminum or nylon-covered aluminum. All this was way before mountain bike levers. I used the Mafacs, mounted low on the right, as the lever for the hub brake on our tandems, so I could not reach both the rim and bub brakes simultaneously. Did this after locking up the rear wheel on a friend's Jack Taylor tandem and almost sliding into an oncoming car. My fault.
harvey sachs
mcLean va