Re: [CR]A new record? - and way early sales!

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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:51:01 -0700
To: "coel canth" <coelcanth@gmail.com>
From: "Jan Heine" <heine94@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [CR]A new record? - and way early sales!
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At 11:40 AM -0400 10/18/07, coel canth wrote:
>I'm a bit surprised there aren't more pictures from the Milan show
>when it was first shown there.. was it received as an important
>design then ?

I am sure there are photos somewhere, but finding them is another issue. Frank Berto told me that he and Valentino Campagnolo had agreed that Frank would write a company history, but then Valentino backed out. I don't know of anybody who has had access to the archives. There was a Rebour drawing in the Le Cycle that included a short article on the Milan show.
>was it received as an important design then ?

At the same Milan trade show in 1949, the big news at Campagnolo's stand appears to have been the Paris-Roubaix back-pedal derailleur (see the article in the current Bicycle Quarterly).
>regarding the later version on ebay; no one can recall seeing one
>for sale, but where else have people seen them ? i wonder how many are thought to be in existence...

I know of one in Japan - the one that was shown in Bicycle Quarterly. It's also on Hiroshi's web site.

Jan Heine
Editor
Bicycle Quarterly
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