Re: [CR] Side Pull Selection

(Example: Production Builders:Peugeot)

From: "P.C. Kohler" <kohl57@starpower.net>
To: <joebz@optonline.net>, <gpvb1@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: [CR] Side Pull Selection
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:25:39 -0500
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cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

----- Original Message ----- From: <joebz@optonline.net> To: <gpvb1@comcast.net> Cc: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 10:17 PM Subject: Re: [CR] Side Pull Selection


> Who had them? My perception was that the Campagnolo brakes were damn hard
> to get in the US until about 1973. A poll, who in the US, on this list,
> actually had a set of these brakes prior to 1973? What US bike offered
> them as standard prior to 1973?
>
> Joe Bender-Zanoni
> Great Notch, NJ

Raleigh, of course! I've always asserted that Raleigh were the best customer Campagnolo ever had. The Raleigh Professional Mk.II from 1970 onwards had Campagnolo Record brakes even when the Carlton Pro in the UK had Weinmann 999s. Of course it made have had more to do with the fact that Weinmanns co-sponsored the Carlton professional Team.

For this project (my Harry Quinn) I am edging towards Weinmann 500s since Weinmann seemed more popular in the UK, but I may just concede the point and go with Campagnolo Record. Personally, it's my favourite Campy component.

Peter Kohler
Washington DC USA