Yes, SL pedals had been available for almost a decade by 1980, and the use of the SL cap was standard by then. It was probably present from day one, but I'm looking for owners of the early variant to check and confirm.
Tom Dalton Bethlehem, PA, USA
freesound@comcast.net wrote: The set that came on my 1980 Masi (don't know if the pedals are original, but I got the bike in 1987) had plastic Campy-marked caps. I'd like to replace them with a steel pair, just for durability. One has broken off already.
Ken Freeman Ann Arbor, MI USA
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From: Tom Dalton <tom_s_dalton@yahoo.com>
> 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 al l 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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