[CR]Question regading EARLY Campy SL pedals

(Example: Component Manufacturers:Ideale)

Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 07:38:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Tom Dalton" <tom_s_dalton@yahoo.com>
To: Classic Rendezvous <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: [CR]Question regading EARLY Campy SL pedals

I'll put the question first: Did the very early Campagnolo Record Superleggera pedals feature the plastic SL dustcap? Now the details: I was lucky to find a set of the first generation Record SL pedals at the T-Town event on Saturday. They set me back a whopping $10, because they were just a beat up old set of pedals to the seller. They are, in fact, a little beaten up, with significant cleat wear, and crash scrapes on one pedal, but they are presentable, and rare. I'm talking about the early version on which the cage is formed from a flat sheet of aluminum, and which looks pretty much like a steel Record cage rendered in aluminum. One of my pedals had an obviously incorrect modern dust cap, and the other had a regular steel Campy dust cap. This lead me to wonder of the SL dustcap was present from the beginning. I checked the 1971 catalog 16 supplement that introduced the SL pedal, but the part numbers for all the small parts were not listed. The next complete catalog (#17) shows the special dust cap for the SL pedal, but that catalog came out later (1973).

I suspect that the plastic cap was present from the beginning. I suspect that an early user of these pedals damaged a cap, and when he replaced it he used a steel cap. It makes sense, becasue it is likely that in the first couple of years following the intro of the SL, most of the available spare dustcaps would have been the standard-of-the-day steel cap, and the plastic would have been a "special" item. This is the opposite of the way things are today, where we can still occasionally find the plastic caps since all the pedals used them by the time production stopped.

So, anyone on the list who owns a set of these pedals, I'm hoping that you can check to see which type of cap they employ. Again, I'm talking about the very early verison with the flat cage, the one that looks for all the world like a KKT Pro Ace or other less expensive Campy SL knockoff.

Tom Dalton Bethlehem, PA, USA

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