Hi all, after reading everything, my thoughts are that they might be the 1st or 2nd years of production, or similar, as oppossed to being custom made for him or him or whomever. I would have thought if a custom build was done, that if would be fabricated from some flat steel and maybe painted, rather than going to the effort of altering the stamping equipment just for a one of......regards wayne davidson Invers NZ.......
on 30/1/06 5:24 PM, r cielec at teaat4p@yahoo.com wrote:
> Ahoy !
>
> Just an off-the-wall speculation from the peanut gallery - Could this style
> pedal offer a means to dial-in crank length for normal riders and not merely
> be a prosthetic?
>
> Richard Cielec
> Chicago, Illinois
>
>
> emeneff@earthlink.net wrote:
> Brook Watts and Chuck Schmidt were trying to discover what was up with the
> "mystery" tall cage pedal.
>
> My two cents is that these were probably made for only a few priveledged pro
> riders who were struggling with leg-length discrepencies. I think I remember
> reading that Eddy Merckx used a shim under one of his cleats . . . hmmm -
> could this have been made for him . . . ?
>
> Mike Fabian
> San Francisco
>
>
> Brook Watts wrote:
>>
>> Nuovo Record Strada Pedal with a wider cage plate
>> ---Is anyone familiar with this pedal? Years of production?
>
>
> Link to photo of pedals:
>
>
> Brooks, I found a 1961 Daniel Rebour drawing showing the Campagnolo
> Record pedal with the tall cage. Rebour's drawing illustrated '61 TdF
> King of the Mountains winner Massignan's Legnano. Record pedals were
> intro'd in 1956. My guess is 1960 for the tall cage version as 1960 is
> noted as "a period of great expansion" for Campagnolo.
>
> Chuck Schmidt
> South Pasadena, Southern California
> http://www.velo-retro.com (timelines, reprints & t-shirts)