Re: [CR]Balilla brakes

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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:23:59 +0000
From: "Hilary Stone" <hilary.stone@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: devotion finesse <devotion_finesse@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]Balilla brakes
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The side-pulls were standard equipment on Moulton Speed Sixs in the mid 1960s.

Hilary Stone, Bristol, England

devotion finesse wrote:
> I've got one at home. Headed for eBay shortly.
> Matthew Bowne
> Brooklyn, New York
>
>
>> From: "Ken Freeman" <freesound@comcast.net>
>> To: "'Jay Sexton'" <jvs@sonic.net>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>> Subject: RE: [CR]Balilla brakes
>> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:12:17 -0500
>>
>> I don't think I've ever seen them.
>>
>> Ken Freeman
>> Ann Arbor, MI USA
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org
>> [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of Jay Sexton
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 1:49 PM
>> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>> Subject: [CR]Balilla brakes
>>
>> Interesting. My early 60's Frejus TdF has Balilla sidepulls. The center
>> pull calipers seem to be plentiful but I have not seen too many sidepull
>> calipers. What say you "oldtimers"? Are the sidepull calipers rare?
>>
>> Jay Sexton
>> Sebastopol, CA
>>
>>
>> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:50:30 -0500
>> From: "Ken Freeman" <freesound@comcast.net>
>> To: "'Richard Robinson'" <vintagespoke@earthlink.net>,
>> <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
>> Subject: RE: [CR]Balilla brakes
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>> I know these were sold in the US on Fiorelli bikes in the late '60s, say
>> 1968 thru 1971. Robert's Cycles in Chicago sold those bikes back
>> then. The
>> store staff thought they were better than the Mafac's on PX-10s and the
>> classic Weinmann's. Campy Record sidepulls were not in the local market
>> back then, at least the stores I haunted.
>>
>> Ken Freeman
>> Ann Arbor, MI USA
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org
>> [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of Richard
>> Robinson
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 8:48 PM
>> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
>> Subject: [CR]Balilla brakes
>>
>> I have a question for all those vintage Italian lovers out there. I
>> bought
>> a nice set of vintage Balilla center pull brakes on ebay several
>> months ag o
>> and know only a little about the brand. I know they were offered on top
>> tier Frejus bikes of the late 50's and early 60's, but this is about it.
>> The brakes look very similar to Universal mod. 61 brakes, bu t are
>> engraved
>> with 'Balilla' in script on the front calip er arm and engraved 'Made in
>> Italy' in block letters on the rear arm. They come with a set of very
>> interesting levers with a unique q uick release, and have cool red
>> anodized
>> washers on the calipers like Weinm ann CP brakes only marked
>> 'Balilla'. Can
>> anyone tell me th e years they were offered and on what bikes these
>> brakes
>> may have been orig inal. Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Regards, Rich Robinson
>> On the road in V.Beach Va.