[CR]re: $400 campagnolo brakes

(Example: Racing:Wayne Stetina)

From: "c. andrews" <chasds@mindspring.com>
To: <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 10:54:13 -0700
Subject: [CR]re: $400 campagnolo brakes

Richard Robinson wrote:

Wow! Why are these Campy brakes going for so much? Long reach? I thought there were only "Normal" reach and "Short" reach sets. Could it be the hoods? See the below link...

http://ebay.com/<blah>

(and Tom Dalton gave an accurate answer to the question of why these brakes were going for as much as they are: the levers and hoods, mainly)

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I have a tangential question: These brakes have *PATENT* stamped on the brake-bolt fitting that holds the spring. Am I mistaken here, or is it the case that the *PATENT* stamp on the brake bolt came later, and the earlier brakes were stamped *BREV. CAMP* on the brake bolt? Or were both stamps used simultaneously? A set of no-stamp brakes I have here, have *BREV. CAMP* stamped on the bolt...arguing for that as the earlier stamp..(duh)... I will say that pre-CPSC short-reach calipers do not seem to be as common as the longer-reach calipers. This might also account for the price, a little, anyway.

Charles "student of pointless campagnolo trivia" Andrews Los Angeles