Bob Hanson wrote:
> -@¿@- Just Two Questions...
>
> 1.) For years I have I have heard mention of "thick" or "Thin" cups.
> Were there actually additional ones made besides what I have mentioned
> above - perhaps for the CPSC modified BB spindles - during the Nuovo
> Record & Super Record years?
No; the "thick" cups refer to the ones with the rifling. In the late 80s
to early 90s there were some thick cups with silicone seals instead of
rifling as well, but that's off topic...
> 2.) Catalog #18 (c.1984) shows Super Record cranksets just used Nuovo
> Record or Record bottom brackets. Anyone know why Campy stopped using
> the Ti bottom bracket sets for the last years of the Super Record Group?
The dreaded "Effs": flex and failure. The Ti spindles were much more flexy than the steel spindles, which bothered a lot of people (Stronglight did a better job with their Ti spindles by making them oversize diameter) and they had a reputation for premature failure.
Most people ended up buying their Super Record groups with with steel BBs and pedal spindles for these reasons. Plus it made the group significantly less expensive.
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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA