Chuck Schmidt wrote:
> Tom Dalton wrote:
>> Chuck,
>> Yet they continued to make the Extras and the Extras continued to be
>> perceived as the top-of-the-line strap, didn't they? When were the
>> Supers introduced? By the early 80's the Supers were regarded as the
>> little brother to the Extra, at least where I'm from.
>>
>> Tom Dalton
>> Bethlehem, PA, USA
>
>
> Yur right Tom.
>
> I looked in the '80s Cinelli reprint I sell (ahem) and all three models
> are in there: Normal, Super and Extra. I always thought when the Super
> ("combining a grain leather strip with a special fabric strip made of
> polyurethanic fibres") came out ten(?) years after the Extra ("combining
> two grain leather constant gauge strips with a nylon strip"), that the
> Super was an improved version of the Extra.
>
> Anyone have a comparison of prices for the Extra and the Super. Anyone
> have an introduction date for the Extra and the Super? I'm guessing the
> Extra was early 70s and the Super was the early 80s. But yes, we in
> SoCal considered the Super to be a replacement for the Extra for racing.
>
The the toothed roller on the buckle would bite better into the leather upper surface of the Extras. The buckles on the Supers would slip a little bit on the fabric upper surface. From what I recall the Extras were a dollar more per pair than the Supers, $11 instead of $10 in the early 80's.
-Eric
--
Eric Goforth
Raleigh, NC USA