Re: [CR]Zeus seat pillar

(Example: Framebuilding:Paint)

Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:33:24 -0600
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Zeus seat pillar
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greenjersey@ntlworld.com wrote:
> Its my recollection that Zues largely copied Campag. Certainly in
> 1970 they were advertising a two bolt seat pillar identical to a
> Campy. My guess is early eighties. I don't believe that Zues kit
> ever had much of a following outside the home market. In one respect
> they were in advance of Campag as I see that the 1970 Criterium
> chainset went down to a 36 inner ring so clearly there was some
> originality.

They also had much more extensive use of titanium, sealed bearings, and other exotica well before Campy dipped their toes in that pool.

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John (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA