Re: [CR] Side Pull Selection

(Example: Framebuilders:Norman Taylor)

Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 22:17:31 -0500
From: <joebz@optonline.net>
Subject: Re: [CR] Side Pull Selection
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To: gpvb1@comcast.net
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cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

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


----- Original Message -----
From: gpvb1@comcast.net
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 04:51:00 -0000
Subject: Re: [CR] Side Pull Selection


> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:25:54 -0500

\r?\n> From: "kohl57@starpower.net" <kohl57@starpower.net>

\r?\n> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org

\r?\n> Subject: [CR] Side Pull Selection

\r?\n>

\r?\n> So it's 1971 and you have a really nice racing bike you want to

\r?\n> spec for

\r?\n> fast time trial stuff. You don't want Campagnolo Record brakes because

\r?\n> everyone has them and you think one of the two would be better and

\r?\n> lighter:

\r?\n> Universal 68s

\r?\n>

\r?\n> or

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Weinmann 500s

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Which would you pick? Neither might be an answer if a good period

\r?\n> correctalternate were suggested.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Peter Kohler

\r?\n> Washington DC USA

\r?\n>

\r?\n> I'd pick the Campagnolo Record ones (if I could somehow scrape

\r?\n> together enough cash to buy them), because almost no one that I

\r?\n> ride with has them, and they're better.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Greg Parker

\r?\n> Ann Arbor, Michigan