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> Subject: Re: [CR] Side Pull Selection
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> > 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?
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> > Joe Bender-Zanoni
> > Great Notch, NJ
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> 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 may have had more >to do with the fact that Weinmanns co-sponsored the Carlton >professional Team.
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> 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 >favorite Campy component.
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> Peter Kohler
> Washington DC USA
Yes, my brown 1970 Pro MKII has Campagnolo sidepulls (but I didn't even have a real lightweight bike in 1970 - I had a 40-pound used Schwinn "lightweight" Varsity that I bought with lawn-mowing money for about $20 IIRC. Replaced it with a brand-new "Coffee" Super Course in 1973 for $165 - a huge expenditure).
I also just peeked in an old Bike Nashbar catalog from 1985 - Record sidepulls cost the same as a Record crankset - $100. The Record brakeset was always expensive. Heck, it was a $50 up-charge on early '70s road Paramounts to get them, when the entire bike was only about $350...
Greg