Re: [CR] Campag misprint?

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Subject: Re: [CR] Campag misprint?
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 22:37:12 +0000


Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:24:56 +0100 From: Toni Theilmeier <toni.theilmeier@t-online.de> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: [CR]Campag misprint?

Got home one of my epic 2CV truckette loads of classic cycling stuff yesterday, nearly all off-topic as the haul consists mostly of cross cycling items, most of which I am going to get rid of, anyway.

One thing, however, struck me as rather interesting: One of the NR rear

derailleurs is stamped "PAT 11".

I have one marked "PAT 72", so I know that the "seven" slants, just like a slash. I also have one marked "PAT 81", on which I can see that

the "one" doesn´t. On the one found yesterday it says "eleven", no doubt.

I have so far assumed that the figures were years; so what is all of this, then?

Regards, Toni Theilmeier, Belm, Germany.

That's a 1985 derailleur. That was the very last year that NR rears were marked with a code. The crank arms got codes for another year or so (22 equals 1986, etc). I'm 99% sure of this. It appears to be a new numbering scheme that was devised when C-Record et al. were introduced in 1985. Sort of a less-obvious year code, to make your used components not look so dated.... Greg Parker Ann Arbor, Michigan